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Instructional writing in English: studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
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ISBN: 9789027254245 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
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ISBN: 0691090289 9786612158643 1400824931 1282158643 1400814634 9781400814633 9780691090283 9781400824939 1400817994 9781282158641 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.

Authorship, ethics, and the reader : Blake, Dickens, Joyce
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ISBN: 0333669711 0312165447 Year: 1997 Publisher: Basingstoke London New York MacMillan Press St. Martin's Press

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Thematology --- Dickens, Charles --- Blake, William --- Joyce, James --- Boeken en lectuur--Moraal en religieuze aspecten --- Books and reading--Moral and religious aspects --- Conditions morales dans la littérature --- Esthétique de la réception --- Ethics and literature --- Ethics in literature --- Ethiek en literatuur --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Ethique et littérature --- Literature and ethics --- Literature and morals --- Literature--Moral and religious aspects --- Literatuur en ethiek --- Literatuur en moraal --- Literatuur--Moraal en religieuze aspecten --- Littérature et morale --- Littérature et éthique --- Littérature--Morale et aspects religieux --- Livres et lecture--Morale et aspects religieux --- Moraal en literatuur --- Moral conditions in literature --- Morale et littérature --- Moraliteit in de literatuur --- Morals and literature --- Morals in literature --- Reader-response criticism --- Authors and readers --- -Authorship --- -Didactic literature, English --- -Ethics in literature --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Literature --- Ethics --- English didactic literature --- English literature --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History and criticism --- Influence --- -Dickens, Charles --- -Joyce, James --- -ジョイス --- -Ethics --- Boz --- Dickens, Charles John Huffam --- Didactic literature, English --- Blake, William, --- Dickens, Charles, --- Joyce, James, --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Ethics. --- Didactic literature [English ] --- Great Britain --- Didactic literature, English - History and criticism. --- Authors and readers - Great Britain - History. --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Dzhoĭs, Dzheĭms Avgustin Aloiziĭ, --- Džoiss, Džeimss, --- Gʻois, Gʻaims, --- Joyce, Giacomo, --- Jūyis, Jīms, --- Tzoys, Tzaiēms, --- Tzoys, Tzeēms, --- Джойс, Джеймс, --- Джойс, Джеймс Августин Алоїсуїс, --- Zhoĭs, Zheĭms, --- ג׳ויס, ג׳ײמס, --- ג׳ויס, ג׳יימס, --- ジェームスジョイス, --- Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius --- Dzhoĭs, Dzheĭms Avgustin Aloiziĭ --- Džoiss, Džeimss --- Gʻois, Gʻaims --- Joyce, Giacomo --- Jūyis, Jīms --- Tzoys, Tzaiēms --- Tzoys, Tzeēms --- Джойс, Джеймс --- Джойс, Джеймс Августин Алоїсуїс --- Zhoĭs, Zheĭms --- ジョイス --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy,


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The making of the Vernon manuscript : the production and contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1 : [symposium, U.K., Oxford, 19 june 2009]
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ISBN: 9782503530468 Year: 2013 Volume: 6 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols


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Conduct literature for and about women in Italy, 1470-1900 : prescribing and describing life
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ISSN: 25513559 25513559 ISBN: 9782406059165 2406059162 9782406059172 2406059170 Year: 2016 Volume: 1 1 Publisher: Paris: Classiques Garnier,

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Conduct literature for and about women represents a very broad but still little-studied body of works that is essential for the understanding of the cultural construction of femininity. Conduct texts, being both prescriptive and descriptive sources, offer a fascinating account of and insight into the changing role of women across the centuries according to the needs of society. On the one hand, they record ideological constructions, models, and aspirations, and on the other they reflect contemporary realities, norms, and customs. The essays in this volume aim to trace some of the main features of conduct literature in the Italian tradition, from the last decades of the fifteenth century to the post-unification period


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Instructional writing in English, 1350-1650 : materiality and meaning
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ISBN: 9781409452621 9781315588889 1315588889 9781317115687 1317115686 9781317115694 1317115694 9781317115670 1317115678 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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"Exploring the nature of practical or instructional works in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material strategies for the presentation and organisation of written knowledge and information during the period. The volume examines textual and material conditions of such works in manuscript, tracing their development through and beyond the arrival of the printing press in England in the late fifteenth century. Works on surgery, courtesy, astrology, writing for women and codicological recipes are examined closely from the perspective of frameworks, conventions, and structures, and more broadly in terms of transmission and dissemination, attitudes and traditions, readers and audiences, and shifting ideas about knowledge and the professional realm. 'Instructional Writing in English' makes a significant contribution to the study of so-called non-literary textual genres and their transmission, circulation and reception, in manuscript and in early modern printed books"--

Jonathan Swift, preacher and jester
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ISBN: 0198120885 9780198120889 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,

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Swift, Jonathan --- Swift, Jonathan, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Satire, English --- Didactic literature, English --- History and criticism --- -Satire, English --- -English satire --- English wit and humor --- English didactic literature --- English literature --- スウィフト --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- di Marco, Corolini --- Swift, Dean --- Gulliver, Lemuel --- Svift, Dzhonatan, --- Du Baudrier, --- Wagstaff, Simon, --- Fribble, Timothy, --- Baudrier, --- Drapier, M. B., --- Swift, J. --- Author of The conduct of the allies, --- Conduct of the allies, Author of the, --- Philomath, T. N., --- T. N., --- N., T., --- TN, --- Swift, --- Hope, Thomas, --- A. B., --- B., A., --- Author of The short view of the state of Ireland, --- Short view of the state of Ireland, Author of the, --- Author of Gulliver's travels, --- Gulliver's travels, Author of, --- S --- -t, --- D--n S --- -t --- Sṿifṭ, Yonatan, --- Misosarum, Gregory, --- Ssu-wei-fo-tʻe, Kʻuang-sheng, --- Fizle, Obadiah, --- Soyipht, Tzonathan, --- Soyipht, Iōnathan, --- Swift, Jonatán, --- Свифт, Джонатан, --- סבפט, יונתן, --- סוויפט, יאנאטהאן, --- סויפט, יונתן, --- סװיפט, יאנאטהאן, --- סװיפט, י., --- Bickerstaff, Isaac, --- Sviphṭa, Jonāthana, --- M., Stephen, --- Author of A tale of a tub, --- Satire, English - History and criticism --- Didactic literature, English - History and criticism --- Swift, Jonathan, - 1667-1745 - Criticism and interpretation --- Swift, Jonathan, - 1667-1745

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