Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on ... 続きを読む
Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian ... 続きを読む
Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was 'more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Point ... 続きを読む
The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The nov ... 続きを読む
The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The nov ... 続きを読む
This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England. The Bible had a profound influence on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture, and bibl ... 続きを読む
I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.'
Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in ... 続きを読む
Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational w ... 続きを読む
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the ... 続きを読む
This volume provides a wide-ranging account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including exam ... 続きを読む
