Product Description: Contents Volume XXIX David Lee Miller, oThe Kathleen Williams Lecture 2014: The Chastity of Allegoryo David J. Baker, oBritain Reduxo Talia Meyers, oSaracens in Faerylando Robert Lanier Reid, oSansloyAEs Double-Meaning and the Mystic Design of SpenserAEs Legend of Holinesso Katharine Cleland, oEnglish National Identity and the Reformation Problem of Clandestine Marriage in SpenserAEs Faerie Queene , Book Io Russ Leo, oMedievalism without Nostalgia: GuyonAEs Swoon and the English Reformation Descensus ad Inferoso Jerrod Rosenbaum, oSpencerAEs Merlin Rehabilitatedo Kelly Lechtonen, oThe Abjection of Malbecco: Forgotten Identity in SpenserAEs Legend of Chastityo Robert W...read more

Product Description: In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her controversial career as a writer of prophetic tracts...read more

Product Description: In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her controversial career as a writer of prophetic tracts...read more

Product Description: Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The author of both poems and novels (including novels containing numerous poems), Barker was largely ignored for many years but has recently been the subject of intense interest and investigation...read more

Product Description: This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw, half-understood experience of late adolescence--the anguish and arguments, the rivalry and anxiety about sex, the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose, the bull sessions held late at night--just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event...read more

Product Description: Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen...read more

Product Description: This facsimile edition reproduces the work titled Eliza's Babes which was first published in 1652. The volume comprises devotional and political verse and prose meditations. The poems cover a wide range of forms from verse epistles to poetic petitions, religious love lyrics to poems on earthly marriage, exultant poetic prayers to stern spiritual admonitions...read more