Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn / edited by Rene? Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro
Oxford [England] New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1979. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Previous owner's signature. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443394
ISBN: 0198126123
Physical description: xxiv, 417 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents: James Marshall Osborn (1906-1976) / Rene? Wellek -- Jim Osborn : some personal notes / David Daiches -- Hamlet's skimmington / Richard Leighton Greene -- The murder of Falstaff, David Jones, and the 'disciplines of war' / John Barnard -- Dean Donne's monument in St. Paul's / Helen Gardner -- The poetics of the critical act : Dryden's dealings with rivals and predecessors / Earl Miner -- The discovery of the date of Mac Flecknoe / David M. Vieth -- Admiration in the comedies of Thomas Southerne / Eugene M. Waith -- Admiration in the comedies of Thomas Southerne / Eugene M. Waith -- Pope's copy of Chaucer / Maynard Mack -- A supplement to The Portraits of Alexander Pope / John Riely and W.K. Wimsatt -- Down Chancery Lane / James Sutherland -- The Chesterfield House library portraits / David Piper -- Johnson's first club / James L. Clifford -- John Black and Montesquieu : the search for a correspondence / Robert Shackleton -- William Blackstone and the legal chairs at Oxford / Lucy Sutherland -- New anecdotes of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / Robert Halsband -- Thomas Percy, Don Quixote, and Don Bowle / Cleanth Brooks -- What do we do when two texts differ? She Stoops to conquer and textual criticism / Tom Davis and Susan Hamlyn -- Dr. Burney, 'Joel Collier', and Sabrina / Roger Lonsdale -- Pusuing Sheridan / Cecil Price -- The application of thought to an eighteenth-century text : The School for scandal / F.W. Bateson -- The term 'conceit' in Johnson's literary criticism / Donald Greene -- Edmond Malone, Horace Walpole, and Shakespeare / Wilmarth S. Lewis -- The apotheosis of Voltaire / Bernard N. Schilling -- Byron's songs of innocence : the poems to 'Thyrza' / Jean H. Hagstrum -- A list of the published writings of James Marshall Osborn / Alvaro Ribeiro.
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