James Loxley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Loxley |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Loxley |
| SIGNATURE | LOXLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5587-8633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way
This essay makes a case for identifying the ‘late court-Poet’ to whom Milton alludes in both editions of The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Common-wealth as the royalist poet John Cleveland, who died in 1658. Beginning with the difficulties critics and editors have previously encountered in identifying possible referents for Milton’s allusion, it proposes a new interpretative framework for the reference which is consistent with Milton’s…
Interview – A Literature House for Edinburgh
This interview explores the rationale and plans for the creation of a Literature House in Edinburgh, which was the first location to be designated a UNESCO World City of Literature and is seeking to find the best ways to curate and promote its literary past and present in order to foster its future
Poetry, portraiture and praise: Suckling and Van Dyck, Lovelace and Lely
The interrelationship between poetry and painting, a perennial focus for critical enquiry, takes on a particular cast in the cavalier poetry of the early to middle seventeenth century. Influenced both by the dominance of Van Dyck’s style of portraiture and by the public prominence of epideictic rhetoric, the moment of ekphrasis becomes an opportunity to practice and to explore the viability of praise.This essay examines the reflexivity of an epid…
Michael J. Braddick, The Oxford handbook of the English Revolution
Michael J. Braddick, The Oxford handbook of the English Revolution." The Seventeenth Century, 31(1), pp. 107–108
The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
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Public feasts: Ben Jonson as literary celebrity
Ben Jonson has long been acknowledged as a writer concerned with the effects of fame, but has most often been construed as a figure in conflict with the cultural processes of commercial print and performance through which he made his reputation. However, the recent discovery of an eyewitness account of his 1618 walk from London to Edinburgh shows us an author more at ease with the public gaze. This article draws on contemporary thinking about cel…
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
The essential guide for students of literature GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691326', 'ISBN: 9780748691333']); Extensively tested at the University of Edinburgh, this introduction to the tools required for literary study provides all the skills, background and critical knowledge which students require to approach their study of literature with confidence. This second edition includes 3 new chapters on Reading, Writing an Essay, and …
Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'
Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration
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Performativity
Literature, Gender and Politics during the English Civil War
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Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars: The Drawn Sword
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Note on the Text - Introduction: As clearly malignant as cavalier - 'Cum Priuilegio: For the KING': a Caroline poetry of praise - 'Bels which ring backward': war and the pen - 'T' upbraid the State Poeticks of this time': making sense of the enemy - 'Thy visage is not legible': royal author, royal text - 'Like committed Linnets': polemic and the poetry of retirement - Notes - Index
Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars
English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which mu
Prepar'd at Last to Strike in With the Tyde? Andrew Marvell and Royalist Verse
Poetry, portraiture and praise: Suckling and Van Dyck, Lovelace and Lely
The interrelationship between poetry and painting, a perennial focus for critical enquiry, takes on a particular cast in the cavalier poetry of the early to middle seventeenth century. Influenced both by the dominance of Van Dyck’s style of portraiture and by the public prominence of epideictic rhetoric, the moment of ekphrasis becomes an opportunity to practice and to explore the viability of praise.This essay examines the reflexivity of an epid…
Prepar'd at Last to Strike in With the Tyde? Andrew Marvell and Royalist Verse
Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars: The Drawn Sword
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Note on the Text - Introduction: As clearly malignant as cavalier - 'Cum Priuilegio: For the KING': a Caroline poetry of praise - 'Bels which ring backward': war and the pen - 'T' upbraid the State Poeticks of this time': making sense of the enemy - 'Thy visage is not legible': royal author, royal text - 'Like committed Linnets': polemic and the poetry of retirement - Notes - Index
Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars
English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which mu
Performativity
Literature, Gender and Politics during the English Civil War
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
The essential guide for students of literature GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691326', 'ISBN: 9780748691333']); Extensively tested at the University of Edinburgh, this introduction to the tools required for literary study provides all the skills, background and critical knowledge which students require to approach their study of literature with confidence. This second edition includes 3 new chapters on Reading, Writing an Essay, and …
Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'
Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Michael J. Braddick, The Oxford handbook of the English Revolution
Michael J. Braddick, The Oxford handbook of the English Revolution." The Seventeenth Century, 31(1), pp. 107–108
The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public feasts: Ben Jonson as literary celebrity
Ben Jonson has long been acknowledged as a writer concerned with the effects of fame, but has most often been construed as a figure in conflict with the cultural processes of commercial print and performance through which he made his reputation. However, the recent discovery of an eyewitness account of his 1618 walk from London to Edinburgh shows us an author more at ease with the public gaze. This article draws on contemporary thinking about cel…
Poetry, portraiture and praise: Suckling and Van Dyck, Lovelace and Lely
The interrelationship between poetry and painting, a perennial focus for critical enquiry, takes on a particular cast in the cavalier poetry of the early to middle seventeenth century. Influenced both by the dominance of Van Dyck’s style of portraiture and by the public prominence of epideictic rhetoric, the moment of ekphrasis becomes an opportunity to practice and to explore the viability of praise.This essay examines the reflexivity of an epid…
Interview – A Literature House for Edinburgh
This interview explores the rationale and plans for the creation of a Literature House in Edinburgh, which was the first location to be designated a UNESCO World City of Literature and is seeking to find the best ways to curate and promote its literary past and present in order to foster its future
A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way
This essay makes a case for identifying the ‘late court-Poet’ to whom Milton alludes in both editions of The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Common-wealth as the royalist poet John Cleveland, who died in 1658. Beginning with the difficulties critics and editors have previously encountered in identifying possible referents for Milton’s allusion, it proposes a new interpretative framework for the reference which is consistent with Milton’s…
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