Samuel Glen Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 5900847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Glen Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Glen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
English Humanist Books
Both these books share what has become in recent years a prevailing desire to humanize the humanists, as it were: to remind us that humanists did not live by Ciceronian sententiae alone, but required bread and were obliged to develop elaborate strategies of salesmanship in order to secure it.While this unromantic vision of the humanists has always existed -it was first expressed by contemporaries who felt their own social and political franchise …
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan
Patricia Springborg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 533 pp. index. illus. bibl. 29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–521–83667–8 (cl), 978–0–521–54521–1 (pbk). - Volume 61 Issue 3
The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy
Angus Gowland. The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. Ideas in Context 78. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 338 pp. index. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978-0-521-86768-1. - Volume 60 Issue 4
Paranoia and Modernity
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Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
Stephanie Moss and Kaara L Peterson, eds. Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. xvii + 218 pp. index. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3791-3. - Volume 58 Issue 2
Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy
This paper considers the implications of Burton's "encyclopedism" defined here as the condition of a work where writing is a form of therapy compelled by disease. The notion of encyclopedism suggests the ways in which the encyclopedia serves as a compendious alter-ego to Burton's book. Reading Anatomy in the context of an encyclopedic tradition transformed by Burton's insistence that his writing is a "foolish labor" intended to ward off melanchol…
Milton Unbound
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Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
The Reinvention of Love
European Encounters with the New World
The Reinvention of Love
European Encounters with the New World
Milton and the Revolutionary Reader
Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy
This paper considers the implications of Burton's "encyclopedism" defined here as the condition of a work where writing is a form of therapy compelled by disease. The notion of encyclopedism suggests the ways in which the encyclopedia serves as a compendious alter-ego to Burton's book. Reading Anatomy in the context of an encyclopedic tradition transformed by Burton's insistence that his writing is a "foolish labor" intended to ward off melanchol…
Milton Unbound
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
Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
Stephanie Moss and Kaara L Peterson, eds. Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot and Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. xvii + 218 pp. index. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3791-3. - Volume 58 Issue 2
Paranoia and Modernity
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 Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy
Angus Gowland. The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. Ideas in Context 78. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 338 pp. index. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978-0-521-86768-1. - Volume 60 Issue 4
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan
Patricia Springborg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 533 pp. index. illus. bibl. 29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–521–83667–8 (cl), 978–0–521–54521–1 (pbk). - Volume 61 Issue 3
English Humanist Books
Both these books share what has become in recent years a prevailing desire to humanize the humanists, as it were: to remind us that humanists did not live by Ciceronian sententiae alone, but required bread and were obliged to develop elaborate strategies of salesmanship in order to secure it.While this unromantic vision of the humanists has always existed -it was first expressed by contemporaries who felt their own social and political franchise …
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