"Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd for much of his life, is seen to challeng ..."
" Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five ..."
" Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king’s motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King’s Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an editio ..."
" The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and ..."
" The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and ..."
"This collection examines intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton and considers their aesthetic, philosophical, or political implications. The theoretical pluralism of the volume reveals the variety and complexity of textual relations in the words of these early modern authors. Some of the essays focus on the author's conscious creation of intertext, others explore the reader's negotiation of books within ..."
""Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture" re-orients critical understanding of Robert Burns by examining his reception and representation in the Americas. While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, "Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture" considers Burns' impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variou ..."
" Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five ..."
"This collection examines intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton and considers their aesthetic, philosophical, or political implications. The theoretical pluralism of the volume reveals the variety and complexity of textual relations in the words of these early modern authors. Some of the essays focus on the author's conscious creation of intertext, others explore the reader's negotiation of books within ..."
French Women Authors The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400-2000 (Paperback) by Kelsey L. Haskett Paperback, Published 2012 by - - ISBN-13: 978-1-64453-088-7, ISBN: 1-64453-088-0
"The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive collection is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Containing the work of over one hundred writers, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end, The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and ..."
"Kirsteen McCue is Head of Scottish Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for
Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. ... Her book near completion,
Poet Burns, considers literary and cultural contexts for his early self-fashioning as
a poet as well as ... including James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish
Romanticism and the WorkingClass Author (2009). ... His extensive writings on
Burns culminated in the publ ..."
Short Fiction (Trinity Western University Custom English 103) by Dr. HollyFaithNelson Paperback, Published 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1-319-10958-5, ISBN: 1-319-10958-6
"... 15 Selwin and Waller , and Berkeleys both the brothers ; Jack Vaughan and
Porter , with divers others . 5 Some bays ( perchance ) or myrtle bough For
difference crowns the brow Of those kind souls that were The noble Martyrs here ;
And if ..."
"285. 10 Epilogue, The Family Legend (Edinburgh and London, 1810), pp. 151–2.
11 Letters, Grierson (ed.), vol. 2, p. 253. 12 Ibid., p. 253. 13 Beth H.
FriedmanRomell, 'Duelling Citizenships: Scottish Patriotism v. British Nationalism
in Joanna Baillie's The Family Legend', NineteenthCentury Theatre, 26/1 (
Summer 1998): 25–49 (36). 14 Ibid., 31–2. 15 Letters, Grierson (ed.), vol. 2, p.
292. Jeffrey N. Cox, 'Staging Baillie', in Thoma ..."
"The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural philosophy rejected ideas of superiority or inferiority between individuals based upon physical or mental difference. We then move to John ..."
"French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women writers. Eleven different authors have been selected for this collection, representing major literary periods from the medieval to the (post)mode ..."
"(Fragile Absolute, 154) For Žižek, the strange, monstrous, traumatic, sublime
logic of this act that involves the “Exception” of the transcendent Thing from
sacrifice — that involves “striking” (150) or “shooting” (153) at “what is most
precious to [one]self” (150) — is a logic of “uncoupling” (123–30) or “unplugging”
(125): an unplugging of the subject and beloved from their inscription in the
sociosymbolic network that harnesses ..."