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The Captain's Impossible Match
Ready to marry for duty Until his old love returns... Running into old friend Lady Emma Westcombe at a London ball is pure delight for Captain Guy Fitzgerald—and pure torture! He's carried a flame for her for years. But Guy is duty-bound to marry well to save his family from destitution, and a bride has already been selected... He has one week to spend with Emma before he must propose to someone else. But will it ever be enough? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move...
Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse
How did ideas about the poet???s art surface in early modern texts? By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses ??? logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, medicine, mythography or religion ??? the essays in this volume unearth notions that remained largely unwritten in the official literary criticism of the period. Focusing on questions of poetry???s origins and style, and exploring individual responses to issues of authenticity, career design, difficulty, or inspiration, this collection revisits and renews the critical lexicons that connect poetic theory and practice in early modern English texts and their European contexts. Reading canonical poets and critics ??? Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Puttenham, Dryden ??? alongside less studied figures such as Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, Thomas Lodge, Aemilia Lanyer, Fulke Greville or George Chapman, this book extends the coordinates for a dialogue between literary practice and the Renaissance theories from which they stemmed and which they helped to outgrow.
Snow-Kissed Proposals
A snowy Victorian Christmas Two festive short stories! In The Christmas Runaway by Jenni Fletcher, willful, independent heiress Fiona MacKay impulsively runs away to a remote Scottish tower, where she's trapped in the snow with equally headstrong, deliciously disheveled Angus Drummond. In Their Snowbound Reunion by Elisabeth Hobbes, Amy Munroe and Anthony Matthews were cruelly parted fifteen years ago, and each blames the other. When Amy becomes Anthony's new housekeeper, their passion is reawakened! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France
In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary ...
Harlequin Historical December 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2
Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: CINDERELLA AND THE SCARRED VISCOUNT By Sarah Mallory (Regency) Convinced his battle scars make him unlovable, Major James Rossington, Viscount Austerfield, proposes marriage in name only to shy Carenza Bettridge. Yet as she blossoms into a desirable woman, Ross finds himself wanting more… THE CAPTAIN’S IMPOSSIBLE MATCH By Laura Martin (Regency) Captain Guy Fitzgerald has always loved old friend Lady Emma Westcome. But Guy is duty bound to marry well to save his family and has just one week with Emma before he must propose to someone else! THE VIKING’S STOLEN PRINCESS By Sarah Rodi (Viking) After Brand Ivarsson of Kald abducts Princess Anne of Termarth on the eve of her wedding, he’s consumed by one thing: revenge. But is Anne his prisoner…or the one who’s captured his scarred heart? Look for Harlequin® Historical’s December 2021 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!
Descartes's Fictions
Descartes's Fictions traces common movements in early modern philosophy and literary method. Emma Gilby reassesses the significance of Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work. She offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise, with particular reference to the genre of tragicomedy, questions of verisimilitude or plausibility, and the figures of Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille. Drawing on what Descartes says about, and to, his many contemporaries and correspond...
Descartes’s Fictions
Emma Gilby reassesses Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work, and offers readings of the controversies to which this poetic theory gives rise.
Yale French Studies
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Yale French Studies, Number 124
In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cue from that lapsed project to reread the seventeenth-century French tragic canon as Trauerspiel. These new readings draw attention to early modern French theater's reflections on chance and contingency, political compromise, the question of allegory, the philosophy of the provisional, the place of sound, and the status of the creaturely.
