Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

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The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions...  Read More >>

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The story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors...  Read More >>

This critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection...  Read More >>

The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were among the worst years of the Little Ice Age. This volume attends...  Read More >>

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection...  Read More >>

""This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen...  Read More >>

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Is there anything new to say about Robert Burns? John Cairney says it's time to trash Burns the Brand and come on...  Read More >>

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

Text and translation of three poems that show the creativity and inventiveness of the Lithuanian Latin epic tradition...  Read More >>

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

This edited collection offers a reappraisal of character as a precondition for caricature and addresses how the...  Read More >>

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

An essay collection showing how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time...  Read More >>

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the...  Read More >>

This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically...  Read More >>

Steve Vine's study introduces the full range of William Blake's poetry and illuminated books from the early Songs...  Read More >>

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Um das Jahr 1750 verfasste der mexikanische Jesuit Francisco Javier Alegre (1729-1788) als junger Novize ein vier...  Read More >>