Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16198 books were found.

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety:...

Author: Ceri Sullivan (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780198906810
Format: Hardback
$149.95

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious...  Read More >>

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie Siecles

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie...

Author: Pascale Mounier
ISBN: 9782406166238
Format: Paperback
$97.68

The precepts of narrative shapes literary production between the 15th and 18th centuries. This volume explores the...  Read More >>

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie Siecles

La Narration Oratoire Et Les Genres Litteraires: Xve-Xviiie...

Author: Pascale Mounier
ISBN: 9782406166245
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The precepts of narrative shapes literary production between the 15th and 18th centuries. This volume explores the...  Read More >>

William Blake's Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

William Blake's Visions: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia...

Author: David Worrall
ISBN: 9783031532535
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533406
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485314
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533444
Format: Paperback
$158.27

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533413
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485321
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533451
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Professor Ros Ballaster
ISBN: 9781837651276
Format: Paperback
$69.84

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of ""presence"" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques...

Author: James Gawley
ISBN: 9782406165866
Format: Paperback
$110.88

This volume quantifies the features that signify allusion in Voltaire and Vergil. Consistency of reader response...  Read More >>

John Donne's Physics

John Donne's Physics

Author: Professor Elizabeth D. Harvey ,  Professor Timothy M. Harrison
ISBN: 9780226833514
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations...  Read More >>

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil

Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques...

Author: James Gawley
ISBN: 9782406165873
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This volume quantifies the features that signify allusion in Voltaire and Vergil. Consistency of reader response...  Read More >>

The Scandal of the Century

The Scandal of the Century

Author: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9781405953337
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating...  Read More >>

John Donne's Physics

John Donne's Physics

Author: Professor Elizabeth D. Harvey ,  Professor Timothy M. Harrison
ISBN: 9780226833507
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations...  Read More >>

The Scandal of the Century

The Scandal of the Century

Author: Lisa Hilton
ISBN: 9781405953320
Format: Hardback
$56.93

Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating...  Read More >>

Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée

Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619,...

Author: Zachary Lesser
ISBN: 9781512826081
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce...  Read More >>

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Proceedings of...

Author: Florian Schaffenrath ,  Dirk Sacré
ISBN: 9789004695573
Format: Hardback
$617.76

In 2022, a conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies took place in Leuven (“Half a Century...  Read More >>

Jacobus Montanus: 'Centuria epistolarium formularum' / 'Eine Hundertschaft Briefmuster'

Jacobus Montanus: 'Centuria epistolarium formularum'...

Author: Michael Baldzuhn
ISBN: 9789004539938
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Kritische Edition der ‚Centuria epistolarium formularum‘ / ‚Hundertschaft Briefmuster‘ (1525) des Jacobus Montanus....  Read More >>

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della...

Author: Giordano Bruno ,  Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9781487552015
Format: Paperback
$89.99

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their...  Read More >>

Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite 2023, XLV

Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite 2023, XLV

Author: Laurence Grove
ISBN: 9782406170952
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Contributeurs: Sandrine Berregard, Laurence Grove et Adrien Mangili.  Read More >>

La Periode Oratoire (1550-1750): Une Esthetique Du Discours

La Periode Oratoire (1550-1750): Une Esthetique Du Discours...

Author: Sophie Hache
ISBN: 9782406169819
Format: Paperback
$150.48

The oratory period is a key notion in rhetoric: it represents the unit of reference for thinking about discourse...  Read More >>

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The Imagined Empire

Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The...

Author: Chloë Houston
ISBN: 9783031226205
Format: Paperback
$284.60

​This book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period,...  Read More >>

La Periode Oratoire (1550-1750): Une Esthetique Du Discours

La Periode Oratoire (1550-1750): Une Esthetique Du Discours...

Author: Sophie Hache
ISBN: 9782406169826
Format: Hardback
$298.32

The oratory period is a key notion in rhetoric: it represents the unit of reference for thinking about discourse...  Read More >>

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