Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Capturing the Pícaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary...  Read More >>

The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare's major plays, unhampered by bardolatry...  Read More >>

Why did Ronsard have his poems from the Amours set to music in 1552? This work addresses this question and contains...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2005. By linking court interludes, neoclassical university tragedies, and popular plays...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical...  Read More >>

Die Rezeption von Gottscheds 'Critischer Dichtkunst' wird bis heute von Lessings Verdikt im '17. Literaturbrief'...  Read More >>

This volume establishes the first synthesis dedicated to the presentation and the chronological analysis of eight...  Read More >>

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This book provides a historically-nuanced account of anxieties about decline in Romantic-era Britain. Combining...  Read More >>

This book shows that the self-conscious construction of ideas about modern English literary character derived in...  Read More >>

Temperance, one of the four primary virtues of the Stoics, which later became the cardinal virtues, is studied here...  Read More >>

This volume establishes the first synthesis dedicated to the presentation and the chronological analysis of eight...  Read More >>

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Francis Coventry's mock-heroic biography presents the reader with a range of characters from various social layers...  Read More >>

2022 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography - First Prize Winner This catalogue of the substantial collection of...  Read More >>

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth...  Read More >>

The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare's major plays, unhampered by bardolatry...  Read More >>

Why did Ronsard have his poems from the Amours set to music in 1552? This work addresses this question and contains...  Read More >>

Francis Coventry's mock-heroic biography presents the reader with a range of characters from various social layers...  Read More >>

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Donneau de Vise and his Mercure galant challenge common assumptions about 17th-century France and the so-called...  Read More >>

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