Quentin Skinner 
From Humanism to Hobbes [PDF ebook] 
Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. E …

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson”s roguish reputation. The book”s aim, however, is not to dispel r …

This skit of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell’s correspondent friend Jourdain. The introduction explains that the contents purport to be lost papers written b …

This edition first published in 1960. This book discusses the extent of Shakespeare”s collaboration in the plays of Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and the lost Cardenio. It includes cha …

If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects th …

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts in Korean in a traditional style. One aim of this cat …

Sally West”s timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge”s influence on Shelley”s poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley”s views on Coleridge as a man and a …

American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur – or strolling urban observer – suggested in Walter Benjamin”s discussion of Baudelaire. This st …

The Civil War was the first ”image war”, as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. At the same time, writers used the Civil War to pre …

Beyond the Iron House is a critical study of a crucial period of life and work of the modern Chinese writer Lu Xun. Through thorough research into historical materials and archives, the author demons …