Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England,...  Read More >>

Explores how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830)....  Read More >>

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This is the first detailed study of the late medieval and early modern King and Commoner literature: a tradition...  Read More >>

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Shakespearean Temporalities addresses a critical neglect in Early Modern Performance and Shakespeare Studies, revising...  Read More >>

This collection foregrounds progress as ""improvement"" as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern...  Read More >>

The first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during the period between...  Read More >>

Kaspar Goldtwurm (1524-1559), lutherischer Theologe, Autor und Hofprediger von Nassau-Weilburg (Hessen), ist in...  Read More >>

The first of its kind since 1988, this book is the most extensive study of Swift's poetry yet, as it examines dozens...  Read More >>

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary...  Read More >>

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Aspects of Recusant History contains fourteen of Thomas Birrell’s articles published between 1950 and 2006. They...  Read More >>

The Consolation of Philosophy was written in 523 AD during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting...  Read More >>

Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. But what about the ghosts of the classical past?...  Read More >>

The Collected Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe provides a revelatory glimpse into the life and mind of Ireland’s...  Read More >>

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome...  Read More >>

Read Hamlet in graphic-novel form - with NO FEAR! NOW IN COLOUR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations,...  Read More >>

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French Renaissance authors, such as Clement Marot, Francois Rabelais, and Montaigne, perpetuated and developed a...  Read More >>

The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue,...  Read More >>

This work studies the characteristics of encyclopedic writing in terms of the compilation, ordering, and arrangement...  Read More >>

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