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The English Mind: Studies in the English Moralists Presented to Basil Willey
Hugh Sykes Davies
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Hardcover. Essays planned to constitute the first literary study of the English moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. BIC Classification: YQE. Weight in Grams: 532. In original cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Covers showing light shelf wear. Previous owner's inscription and ex-libris stamps to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a very good copy
This is not a random collection of essays, but a book on a single theme. Written by separate hands, mainly by literary critics at Cambridge, it was planned as a whole and executed with a common purpose: to produce the first literary study of the English moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The authors share two convictions: they believe that the study of literature demands an understanding of whatever moral philosophy is embodied in it; and they believe that philosophical writings are capable of being tested by the techniques of literary criticism. In this book, ... Read more
This is not a random collection of essays, but a book on a single theme. Written by separate hands, mainly by literary critics at Cambridge, it was planned as a whole and executed with a common purpose: to produce the first literary study of the English moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The authors share two convictions: they believe that the study of literature demands an understanding of whatever moral philosophy is embodied in it; and they believe that philosophical writings are capable of being tested by the techniques of literary criticism. In this book, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1964
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521047944
SKU
KMK0013372
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