In a fresh survey of English writing from 1650-1720, Milton to Pope explores the multiplicity of what one ballad writer called 'this scribbling age'. The focus of the book is on close readings of both familiar and lesser-known texts, placing them within their larger contexts. Among questions raised are how the 'period' looks from the perspective of the late seventeenth century and from our own time and how reputations of writers have changed over time. Stevenson takes a close look at what was being read and how it was being published, looking at poetry, prose and drama, with particular emphasis on what is to be learned from details of earlier printing practices and manuscript circulation.

Milton to Pope, 1650-1720 (Transitions, 45)

Literature & Fiction

Stevenson, Kay Gilliland

British & Irish

Red Globe Press

Milton to Pope, 1650-1720 (Transitions, 57)

Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo

<p>Do the angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Heaven and the Flesh explores the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the High Renaissance to the birth of Romanticism. Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson analyze the work of little-known as well as canonical writers and artists, philosophers and theologians. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.</p>

Hart, Clive

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

Religion & Spirituality

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