Conrad's Secrets by R. Hampson

Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England

A typical literary language associated royal absolutism to radical faith and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from each side of the Civil Wars, together with Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, and the Quakers, tailored the analogy among family members and country to help substantially various visions of political group.

The Satanic Epic

The devil of Paradise misplaced has interested generations of readers. This e-book makes an attempt to provide an explanation for how and why Milton's devil is so seductive. It reasserts the significance of devil opposed to those that might reduce the poem's sympathy for the satan and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake received it correct whilst he referred to as Milton a real poet simply because he was once "of the Devils get together" even if he set out "to justify the methods of God to males.

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street

**NOTE: publication doesn't contain ILLUSTRATIONS**A interesting artwork historical past and cultural biography, the road of fantastic probabilities specializes in the most influential creative quarters within the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries – London’s Tite highway, the place a astonishing quantity of expertise thrived, together with James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.

Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series)

‘Before Einstein’ brings jointly past scholarship within the box of nineteenth-century literature and technological know-how and tremendously expands upon it, delivering the 1st book-length research of not just the clinical and cultural context of the spatial fourth measurement, but additionally the literary price of 4-dimensional conception.