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...Alan Dugald McKillop Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE EARLY HISTORY OF THOMSON’S LIBEXTI’ By ALANDUGALD MCKILLOP A full account of James Thomson’s Liberty would include some consideration of the poet’s studies in connection...

...Gerald L. Bruns Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture . By Russell A. Berman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xxi + 238 pp. University of Washington 2009 Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Emeritus Professor at the University...

... of America (1701) : An Anonymous Virginian’s Pro- posals for Liberty Under the British Crown, with Two Memoranda by William Byrd. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHT.San Marino, Cali- fornia : The Huntington Library, 1945. Pp. xxiv + 66. $2.50. These two valuable contributions to knowledge about...

... as little attention to Claudio’s response as Lucio does-or, even more unfortunately, as Claudio himself does a few minutes after he speaks it: From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint...

...Klaus Stierstorfer Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain . By Trevor Ross . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2018 . xi + 301 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 The problem “What is literature...

..., luxuriating in the pleasures and perplexities of Latin and English poetry since Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (1997). Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England reaffirms James’s position at the forefront of the field. The last word of the Metamorphoses...

... of liberty, but at the cost of obfuscating the coloniality on which this notion of liberty was predicated. The following discussion examines colonial relations of power in the rise of modern Arabic literary criticism as registered in Khālidī’s comparative treatise. Thus the ensuing analysis employs...

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... Navarre” appeared in the December 2003 issue of MLQ . The Poet’s Toys: Christopher Marlowe and the Liberties of Erotic Elegy Heather James nd ’tis a pretty toy to be a poet”: this line, placed in the mouth of A an exceedingly weak king by an exceptionally strong poet, seems...

...Joshua Scodel Hamlet and its protagonist place liberty at their center of vision by exploring its diverse senses. Freedom in Hamlet is of different kinds, always limited and hard to obtain or keep. The play's other characters serve as clarifying foils to Hamlet himself, who as the closely watched...

... subjects into states to which they contribute virtually nothing, states of such intensity as to be hardly recognizable as human. Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan engage with concepts of liberty predictably, given their contexts and ours, but also in ways that are unpredictable and occasionally even startling...

..., the lens of neoliberalism, with its insistence on free trade and its link to personal liberty, shows something interest- ing about the relationships among economics, politics, and even lit- erary experimentation in England and the English Caribbean, where new forms of trade provided an ethical...

... of the last fifteen-line stanza of Shelley’s “Ode to Liberty,” in which Shelley, too, refuses the lyrical apostrophe on which his poem is based: Paused, and the spirit of that mighty singing   To its abyss was suddenly withdrawn; Then, as a wild swan, when sublimely winging   Its path athwart the thunder...

... are the inevitable conse- quences of natural law and that they are the inevitable consequences of passion, had already been published. This treatise was Benjamin Franklin’s A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, which appeared in London in 1725 as a reply to William Wollaston’s...

... pronouncements as the following : “He [Shake- speare] was for balance, and order, and good-nature all round, and was at all times, and in all his works, the enemy of anarchy: for anarchy, he knew well, was the enemy of Freedom. I say Freedom rather than Liberty, because it better expresses...

... of Shakespeare’s canonization. Thus nothing here is particularly new except the explicitness with which I think we can conclude that Shakespeare is celebrated today because he signifies liberty. 6 ▪ ▪ ▪ Source study shows that Shakespeare regularly removed any trace of a strong, central, single...

... [Shake- speare] was for balance, and order, and good-nature all round, and was at all times, and in all his works, the enemy of anarchy: for anarchy, he knew well, was the enemy of Freedom. I say Freedom rather than Liberty, because it better expresses Shakespeare’s ideal...

... by which human conduct and social institutions can be once for all justified or discredited According to him, too, Vol- taire’s “onslaught on persecuting Christianity” was for the most part separated from “the cause of popular government, a not very far-sighted policy, since civil liberty...

... finishing to it, at a time when they thought the doctrine of Liberty very seasonable.”n Addison asked John Hughes to write the fifth act, then rapidly completed it himself. He took advice from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu about details of the language and appeals to liberty. He enlarged a subplot...

..., the “Patriots.” Swift supports this identification by giving the eulogist the loaded term liberty. The eulogist uses the word only once, but its importance is emphasized by the drumlike effect of its context : “Fair LIBERTY was all his Cry; “For her he stood prepar’d to die...