Evening's Empire

Evening's Empire
Author: Craig Koslofsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521896436

This illuminating guide to the night opens up an entirely new vista on early modern Europe. Using diaries, letters, legal records and representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced and transformed the night.

The Invention of Love

The Invention of Love
Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802135810

Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard's new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
Author: A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393329011

Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century
Author: M. Koehler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137313609

By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.