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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the first volume was originally published in 1776), is one of the most famous texts in the English…

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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the second and third volumes were originally published in 1781), is one of the most famous texts in…

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    A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    Edmund Burke

    Intends to propound the author’s theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the…

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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    Decline and Fall spans thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. David Womersley’s selection and commentary enables the reader to acquire a…

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    Writings on Standing Armies

    The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the states powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and…

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    Writings on Standing Armies

    The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the states powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and…

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    James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

    David Womersley

    James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. This title deals with…

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    The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    David Womersley

    David Womersley’s book investigates Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony…

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    Restoration Drama: An Anthology

    This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts.

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    James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

    David Womersley

    James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. This title deals with…

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    Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

    This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). This edition presents Johnson’s texts in chronological order, and…

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    Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors

    A comprehensive selection of Samuel Johnson’s most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life and reflecting almost completely the full range of literary forms in which he wrote.

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    Liberty & American Experience in the Eighteenth Century

    Examines some of the central themes and ideologies central to the formation of the United States. This book provides an examination of various facets of the Founders’ lives and thoughts…

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    Cultures Of Whiggism: New Essays On English Literature And Culture In The Long Eighteenth Century

    he essays collected in this volume explore the Whiggish literary culture that arose in England in the late seventeenth century and continued throughout the following century. From the pre-history of…

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    An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times and Other Writings

    John Brown

    John Brown (17151766) 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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    An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times and Other Writings

    John Brown

    John Brown (17151766) 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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    The Isle of Pines and Plato Redivivus

    Henry Neville

    The only scholarly edition of Henry Neville’s most important writings, the Liberty Fund edition is constructed on a solid textual foundation, offering for the first time a thorough annotation of…

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    The Isle of Pines and Plato Redivivus

    Henry Neville

    The only scholarly edition of Henry Neville’s most important writings, the Liberty Fund edition is constructed on a solid textual foundation, offering for the first time a thorough annotation of…

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    Selected Essays

    Samuel Johnson

    Contains a selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as ‘The Rambler’ in the early 1750s. This volume includes the best of Johnson’s journalism, including essays from the periodicals…

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    Restoration Comedy

    Provides a flavour on the bawdy and satirical comedies performed in the sophisticated theatres of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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    Gulliver’s Travels

    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most important books in English literature. This new edition will be indispensable for students, researchers and academics. Its introduction, commentary and ancillary materials place…

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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the second and third volumes were originally published in 1781), is one of the most famous texts in…

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    The Life of Samuel Johnson

    James Boswell

    A biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature.

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    Gulliver’s Travels

    Jonathan Swift

    Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most important books in English literature. This new edition will be indispensable for students, researchers and academics. Its introduction, commentary and ancillary materials place…

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    Divinity and State

    David Womersley (Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)

    This book explores how the Reformation’s transformation of religious belief into a political statement and the saturation of the national past with religious implications (created by the political developments of…

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    Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815

    David Womersley (Official Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Jesus College, Oxford)

    Womersley’s subject is Gibbon’s conflict with his critics, in particular the spokesmen for religious orthodoxy. By considering the interactions between the historian and his readership, he illuminates Gibbon’s experience of…

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