Browsing School of English and Drama by Title
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Philosophical Solitude: David Hume Versus Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Physics of Melting in Early Modern Love Poetry
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Playing Josephus on the English Stage
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Playing with Books in John Bale's Three Laws
(English Association, 2013)It has become something of a critical commonplace to talk about John Bale's deep ambivalence about drama as a representational practice. Using drama against itself, Bale, in the words of recent criticism, seeks to expose ... -
'Pleasure too often Repeated': Aldous Huxley's Modernity
(Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2013)Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach In an essay published in 1923, Aldous Huxley suggested that ‘of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto- intoxication, brews quietly up within its own ... -
Poetry in Expanded Translation: Audre Lorde, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harryette Mullen, Don Mee Choi
(2021-03-27)In this article, I discuss the politics and poetics of translation in the work of Audre Lorde, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harryette Mullen, and Don Mee Choi, considering each poet's ideas about translation and translation ... -
The Power of Books: Wafaa Bilal’s 168:01 and Edmund de Waal’s library of exile
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“Pray send back this foul proof:” Thomas Birch and the correction of Elizabeth Carter’s Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explain’d for the Use of the Ladies (1739)
In 1739, Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) published Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explain’d for the Use of the Ladies, a translation of Francesco Algarotti’s Il Newtonianismo per le Dame (1737). This article discusses the role ... -
Predicación y persuasión: Vicente Ferrer en Castilla, 1411–1412
(Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2010) -
Presbyterian Imitation Practices in Zachary Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzars Fierie Furnace
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2013-06-14)The university administrator, preacher and poet Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) relied heavily on epithets and similes borrowed from Josuah Sylvester's poetry when composing his scriptural versifications Zion's Flowers(c. 1640?). ... -
'Prescott, Rachel (1765/6-1824)'
(Oxford University Press, 2016-05-26) -
The Press of the Royal Institution
(Edinburgh University Press, 2025-04-01)The essay offers the first detailed account of the Press of the Royal Institution, established in 1801 in order to print the recently launched Journals of the Royal Institution as well as lecture syllabuses, other pedagogical ...