The Politics of Drama
in Augustan England
By
John Loftis.
Noting that national politics influenced dramatic
theme, form, and tone-often determining the fate of plays on stage
in
Augustan England-Professor Loftis discusses the dramatists Dryden,
Otway, Lee, Rowe, Addison, Steele, Gay, and Fielding. At the junction
of political, dramatic, and theatrical history, this book will interest both
literary scholar and historian.
$4.80
Defoe and the Nature of Man
By
Maximillian E. Novak.
Professor Novak draws upon the complete
corpus of Defoe's writings for this first thorough study of his moral and
intellectual background, which trace the development of his ideas to
their fullest statement in fictional form. In the prevalence of themes
of necessity, isolation, sexual freedom, courage, and gratitude, he finds
evidence of Defoe's reliance upon natural law as a moral determinant.
Castillian Hexes: Versions from
Antonio Machado, 1875-1939
$4.00
Edited
by
Charles Tomlinson and Henry Gifford.
A poet who,
in
Mr. Gifford's words, "felt keenly the stresses and tragic potentialities of
life in a backward, suffering, fanatical country, and affirmed through
the experience a larger truth," Machado deserves an introduction to the
non-Spanish speaking world. More acclaimed in Spain today than
in
his
own lifetime, his poems are fluent and free, infused with atmosphere of
,the Castilian landscape, yet embodiments of the particular, the mortal
and the temporal in a way that transcends nationality.
$2.90
English Literature, 1815-1832
The Oxford History of English Literature, Volume
X
By
Ian Jack.
The poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats; the fiction of
Scott and Peacock; the prose of Hazlitt, Lamb, and DeQuincey-these
serve as the focus for Professor Jack's series of critical reassessments. In
a full treatment of the minor writers of the time, Clare and John Galt
are given particular prominence. Parallels with our own day are fre–
quently astonishing.
$11.50
Oxford University Press
/
New York
