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The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the "Watchmen of the Holy City, " and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of th...

Whether arms should be entrusted to a "standing army" (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and earl...

Whether arms should be entrusted to a "standing army" (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and earl...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). This edition presents Johnson's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.

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David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

This book explores how the Reformation's transformation of religious belief into a political statement and the saturation of the national past with religious implications (created by the political developments of the 1530s) was reflected in sixteenth-century English historiography and historical drama, including Shakespeare's history plays.

The latest volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series~Includes a generous and varied selection of Johnson's works~Provides the texts in their original form~Offers a critical introduction, detailed chronology, and rich annotation

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also,...

This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.

The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's "The Country Wife" and Congreve's "The Way of the World" - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes full texts of Wycherley's "The Country Wife" and Congreve's "The Way of the World."Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.Introduces general readers or students to the genre.An editorial introduction guides readers throug...

The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's "The Country Wife" and Congreve's "The Way of the World" - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes full texts of Wycherley's "The Country Wife" and Congreve's "The Way of the World."Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.Introduces general readers or students to the genre.An editorial introduction guides readers throug...

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In the wake of the formalist 'New Critical' consensus of the mid-twentieth century, a central and recurrent problem in the field of literary study has been that of precisely how the literary text was to be related to the various and proliferating contexts that now jostled for critical attention. The quality of balanced judgment was suddenly especially valuable. These essays range over the fields of Erskine-Hill's own scholarship, from Shakespe...

The essays collected in this volume explore the Whiggish literary culture that arose in England in the late seventeenth century and continued throughout the following century. From the pre-history of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the pressures created by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described.

David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history.

Written by some of today's premiere scholars of American history, Liberty and American Experience in the Eighteenth Century examines some of the central themes and ideologies central to the formation of the United States including: David Womersley's introduction includes a discussion of Edmund Burke's theories on property rights and government, setting the foundation for the various themes of liberty found in this volume. In 'Of Liberty and th...