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Tripod: Books & MoreThe library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.
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WorldCatA catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.
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The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558-1660
ISBN: 9780719091582Publication Date: 2015-07-01Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England.
Marvell (Selected Books)
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The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell
ISBN: 9780521884174Publication Date: 2010-12-23Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively, address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of intriguing gaps. -
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon
ISBN: 9780300112214Publication Date: 2010-11-30Nigel Smith's biography provides a look into Marvell's life, from his early employment as a tutor and gentleman's companion to his suspicious death, reputedly a politically fueled poisoning. -
Bloom's Critical Views: Andrew Marvell
ISBN: 1555463207Publication Date: 1990-01-01Selected (by Harold Bloom) critical essays on Marvell's works and cultural context.
Milton & Paradise Lost (Selected Books)
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The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
ISBN: 9781107029460Publication Date: 2014-04-28Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. Part I introduces the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics in motion. Part II deals with contextual issues raised by the early books, while Part III examines the epic's central and final episodes. The volume concludes with a meditation on the history of the poem's reception and a detailed guide to further reading. -
Milton in Context
ISBN: 9780521518987Publication Date: 2010-01-07This volume investigates the various ways in which Milton's works and experiences emerged from the culture and events of his time. In a series of concise essays, an international group of scholars examines both the social conditions of Milton's life and the broader intellectual currents that shaped his writings and reputation. -
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
ISBN: 9781107033603Publication Date: 2014-11-06This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are "world[s] / Of destined habitation."
Ovid
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A Companion to Ovid
ISBN: 9781405141833Publication Date: 2009-04-20Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature. -
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
ISBN: 9781444339673Publication Date: 2014-09-22Reveals the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day.
Shakespeare (Selected Books)
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Shakespearean Sensations: experiencing literature in early modern England
ISBN: 9781107028005Publication Date: 2013-02-07Provides insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's impact on feeling. Shakespearean Sensations brings together scholarship from a range of well-known and new voices to address this fundamental gap. The book includes a comprehensive introduction by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard and comprises three sections focusing on sensations aroused in the plays; sensations evoked in the playhouse; and sensations found in the imaginative space of the poems. -
Knowing Shakespeare: senses, embodiment and cognition
ISBN: 9780230275614Publication Date: 2010-12-15A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies, and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. -
Measure for Measure: an authoritative text, sources, criticism, adaptations, and responses
ISBN: 9780393931716Publication Date: 2009-11-06The text of Measure for Measure is accompanied by a full introduction, a note on the text, textual variants, and related illustrations."Sources" considers the probable, primary, and analogous sources Shakespeare drew upon while composing Measure for Measure. "Criticism" collects seventeen important commentaries on Measure for Measure spanning four centuries. "Adaptations and Responses" reprints alternative versions of the play. A Selected Bibliography is also included. -
King Lear: New critical essays
ISBN: 9780415775267Publication Date: 2008-06-19Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essaysoffer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear.
Spenser (Selected Books)
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The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser
ISBN: 9780199227365Publication Date: 2011-01-14Examines the entire canon of his work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced, providing new readings of the texts, extensive analysis of former criticism, and up-to-date bibliographies. It examines a wide range of subtexts, intertexts, and analogues that contextualise the works within the literary conventions, traditions and genres upon which Spenser draws and not infrequently subverts and grapples with the issue of Spenser's effect on succeeding generations of editors, writers, painters and book-illustrators. -
Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: physiology and inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton
ISBN: 0521630738Publication Date: 2000-01-13Explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in English Renaissance literature. -
Spenser's Ovidian Poetics
ISBN: 9780874130805Publication Date: 2009-12-01Explores Spenser's emulation of Ovid's amatory poetics. His humanist education trained him to find or construct analogues and etiological patterns in classical texts. Therefore, his early study of translation, intensive reading, and "versifying" as an interrelated process guaranteed a densely allusive, metamorphic Ovidian poetics as a natural result. -
The Faerie Queene: A Reader's Guide
ISBN: 0521654688Publication Date: 1999-03-28This book, designed as a handbook to be consulted by students while reading the poem, is the only convenient and up-to-date guide available. Religious and political contexts are explained, while the analysis of Spenser's literary techniques encourages close reading.