Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1928, this book discusses the complex relationships between authors, patrons and publishers...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1928, this is the companion volume which follows on from Authorship in the Days of Johnson....  Read More >>

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law,...  Read More >>

This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Regional Romanticism...  Read More >>

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early...  Read More >>

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song...  Read More >>

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date...  Read More >>

Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of...  Read More >>

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino....  Read More >>

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets,...  Read More >>

The twenty-four essays on the work of John Lyly selected for this volume reflect current critical concerns with...  Read More >>

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual...  Read More >>

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness...  Read More >>

Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is...  Read More >>

Approaching The Book of the Courtier as an early modern reader would have, author W.R. Albury explores aspects of...  Read More >>

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,...  Read More >>

These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the...  Read More >>

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language....  Read More >>

This volume shows the great range of activity by anonymous lexicographers in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. There...  Read More >>