wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Writings on Standing Armies
ISBN: 9780865979123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 746 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the states powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and coalesce into a recurrent problem in political practice. Liberty Fund presents Writings on Standing Armies, a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important pamphlets on the standing armies controversy of 169798. In addition, these writings express a subtext that is of equal and enduring importance: the transforming effects exerted by the prolonged possession of power on individuals and administrations. Whether...
The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the states powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in ...
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61,36 zł |
Divinity and State
ISBN: 9780199255641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1589 the Privy Council encouraged the Archbishop of Canterbury to take steps to control the theatres, which had offended authority by putting on plays which addressed 'certen matters of Divinytie and of State unfitt to be suffred'.
How had questions of divinity and state become entangled? The Reformation had invested the English Crown with supremacy over the Church, and religious belief had thus been transformed into a political statement. In the plentiful chronicle literature of the sixteenth-century, questions of monarchical legitimacy and religious orthodoxy became intertwined as a... In 1589 the Privy Council encouraged the Archbishop of Canterbury to take steps to control the theatres, which had offended authority by putting on pl...
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687,17 zł |
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780199609512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 1328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of Johnson's most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life. It reflects almost completely the range of literary forms in which Johnson wrote. In keeping with the the approach of the series, the texts are presented in chronological order and the text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the first published version. As well as an expansive introduction and a detailed chronology of Johnson's life, David Womersley provides helpful annotation to guide and orient the reader.
The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of Johnson's most important writings, drawn from all p...
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699,55 zł |
Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': The Historian and His Reputation, 1776-1815
ISBN: 9780198187332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the "Watchmen of the Holy City," and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the "Watchmen of the Holy City," and it explores th...
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1343,29 zł |
Companion Lit Milton to Blake
ISBN: 9780631212850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This definitive companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent configurations of the canon and points to new directions of study.
This definitive companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological ra...
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258,32 zł |
Restoration Drama: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780631209034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.
This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, w...
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230,81 zł |
The Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
ISBN: 9780521070966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments over a period of twenty years. Dr Womersley discusses each of these instalments in detail, plotting the work's transformation from conception to completion, and relating this to the achievements and limitations of the philosophic historiography which Gibbon inherited from Montesquieu and Hume, but finally...
David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, exami...
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281,94 zł |
Restoration Drama Anthology
ISBN: 9780631209027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 836 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.
This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, w...
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737,00 zł |
Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780140436273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as "The Rambler" in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals "The Adventurer" and "The Idler."
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf... This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as "The Rambler" in the early 1750s. It was here that he firs...
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77,22 zł |
Restoration Comedy
ISBN: 9780631234722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.
The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolu...
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170,29 zł |
Restoration Comedy
ISBN: 9780631234715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.
The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolu...
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693,20 zł |
The Isle of Pines and Plato Redivivus
ISBN: 9780865979161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Henry Neville (16201694), writes David Womersley in his Introduction, was an experienced political actor who united a practitioners sense of possibility with literary flair and imagination as he struggled to achieve headway for his republican commitments in the deceptive waters of late Stuart monarchy. Educated at Oxford, Neville made an extended visit to Italy in 164344, where he formed long-standing connections in Florence and studied the institutions of republican Venice. In 1649 he entered the House of Commons with the support of Algernon Sidney (who was his second cousin). Over the next...
Henry Neville (16201694), writes David Womersley in his Introduction, was an experienced political actor who united a practitioners sense of possibili...
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61,36 zł |
The Isle of Pines and Plato Redivivus
ISBN: 9780865979154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Henry Neville (16201694), writes David Womersley in his Introduction, was an experienced political actor who united a practitioners sense of possibility with literary flair and imagination as he struggled to achieve headway for his republican commitments in the deceptive waters of late Stuart monarchy. Educated at Oxford, Neville made an extended visit to Italy in 164344, where he formed long-standing connections in Florence and studied the institutions of republican Venice. In 1649 he entered the House of Commons with the support of Algernon Sidney (who was his second cousin). Over the next...
Henry Neville (16201694), writes David Womersley in his Introduction, was an experienced political actor who united a practitioners sense of possibili...
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101,56 zł |
The Life of Samuel Johnson
ISBN: 9780140436624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 1245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson's private hours, and Boswell's attentiveness to every facet of Johnson's character makes this...
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality,...
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128,76 zł |
Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
ISBN: 9780415163200 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 4100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Few books of scholarship have held up so well to public attention over the last two hundred years. At a time when the materials for this history were scant, a mind as great as Gibbon's was able to absorb everything known on the subject and dominate it with his historical erudition and inimitable literary style.
The first volume, highly acclaimed on publication, was quickly reprinted in spite of an ambitious first print-run of 1000 copies. Careless proofreading meant numerous errors had to be rectified in later editions. It was not until the third edition, reprinted here, that the layout... Few books of scholarship have held up so well to public attention over the last two hundred years. At a time when the materials for this history were ...
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5749,59 zł |