David Womersley has been a Fellow and Tutor in English
Literature at Jesus College, Oxford since 1984.
Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine”s College, Oxford,
and University Lecturer in English Literature.
9 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย David Womersley
David Womersley: Restoration Comedy
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.
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Edward Wortley Montagu: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks
In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years’ War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country’s plight in an historical context formed by the study …
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Edward Wortley Montagu: Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks
In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years’ War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country’s plight in an historical context formed by the study …
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Edward Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley’s masterly …
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James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of schola …
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David Womersley: James II (Penguin Monarchs)
‘James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?’The short reign of James II is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British …
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John Brown: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times and Other Writings
John Brown (1715–1766) was a clergyman who achieved great but transient fame as a writer and moralist. His attack on Shaftesbury and “moral sense” philosophy, against which he employed utilitarian …
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Edmund Burke: Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and …
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David Womersley: Writings on Standing Armies
The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the state’s powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and coalesce into a recurrent p …
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