Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

The Age of Curiosity challenges the 'success story' of curiosity and its 'progress' from original sin to intellectual...  Read More >>

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton's dramatic...  Read More >>

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...  Read More >>

This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place...  Read More >>

What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and...  Read More >>

This book takes an interdiscplinary approach to the many different places of early modern criticism. It argues polemically...  Read More >>

Presenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete,...  Read More >>

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This anthology offers a compendium of the best burlesque poems of Paul Scarron, the most representative of his aesthetic...  Read More >>

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This anthology offers a compendium of the best burlesque poems of Paul Scarron, the most representative of his aesthetic...  Read More >>

The famous expression diz vliegende bispel from Eschenbach's Parzival is the volume's watchword. In the poem the...  Read More >>

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Performance traditions before 1642 in the northeast of England, and the impulses that affected traditions ranging...  Read More >>

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The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzling handiwork...  Read More >>

Introduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne.  Read More >>

This collection of essays is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia...  Read More >>

Skeptical doubt – a foundation of modernity – inspired the burst of artistic creativity illuminating the age of...  Read More >>

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Classical Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the sum and substance of Shakespeare’s education and was the basis...  Read More >>

Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney's well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus' Ratio or 'System'...  Read More >>