New Books from Oxford
Revolutionary Writers
LITERATURE AND AUTHORITY
IN THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1725-1810
EMORY ELLIOTT, Princeton University. In this survey of five early American
writers, Elliott shows that, far from starting with Emerson, American literature was
an important product of the Revolutionary period. "In this learned, lively, and
valuable book, [Elliott] has rescued [Messrs. Dwight, Barlow, Freneau,
Brackenridge, and Brown] from an oblivion they do not quite deserve, and has
firmly established grounds on which we ought
to
remember them." -Carlos Baker.
320 pp. $17.95
Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ITS BACKGROUND, 1760-1830
MARILYN BUTLER, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Analyzing such Romantic
writers as Blake, Austen, and Keats, Butler relates their works to the prominent
events of their time-the French Revolution, the expansion of agriculture, trade,
and industry, and the emergence of an aware, educated elite-revealing a literature
that is various and contradictory, not homogeneous as most earlier studies have
assumed.
244 pp. $17.95
An English Temper
ESSAYS ON EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION
RICHARD HOGGART, Goldsmith's College, University of London. These essays
confmnt a broad range of developments in education, class and culture, mass
communications, government intervention in the arts, new technologies, and [he
public voice. Hoggart's English experience and his work for UN ESCO give his
observations an international perspective.
224 pp. $15.95
The New Oxford Book
of Christian Verse
Chosen and Edited by DONALD DAVIE, Vanderbilt University. With more than
250 selections by some 100 poets, this volume contains a treasury of some of the
most beautiful and moving poems in [he English language. Featured writers include
Chaucer and Langland, Sidney and Spencer, Milton, Colet'idge, and Hopkins, and
sllch moderns as W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, and John
Be~eman.
350 pp. $24.95
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