Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: philip major

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  • ROYALISTS AND ROYALISM IN 17TH-CENTURY LITERATURE
    PHILIP MAJOR
    Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long ...

    $1,240.00

  • CLARENDON RECONSIDERED
    PHILIP MAJOR
    Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other fields, Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) remains comparatively neglected. However, the recent surge of interest in royalists and royalism, and the new theoretical strategies it has...

    $1,380.00

  • ENGLAND'S FORTRESS
    ANDREW HOPPER / PHILIP MAJOR
    Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the res...

    $1,160.00

  • THOMAS KILLIGREW AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH STAGE
    PHILIP MAJOR
    Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of K...

    $1,140.00

  • WRITINGS OF EXILE IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND RESTORATION
    PHILIP MAJOR
    Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration opens a window onto exile in the years 1640-1680, as it is experienced across a broad spectrum of political and religious allegiances, and communicated through a rich variety of genres. Examining previously undiscovered and understudied as well as canonical writings, it challenges conventional paradigms which assume a ...

    $1,480.00