Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Jill Kowalik reevaluates J.J. Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst (1740) with regard to a heretofore neglected aspect...  Read More >>

While Romantic Doppelganger are often preternatural figures, the Poetic Realists configure egos and their narrative...  Read More >>

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. This book is concerned...  Read More >>

Examines the interplay of history, textuality, dramaturgy, and politics in the school dramas of Daniel Casper von...  Read More >>

In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R.M. Longyear discusses Schiller's...  Read More >>

Presents a series of interpretive readings of the Romische Elegien, Sonette, Chinesisch-deutsche Jarhes- und Tageszeiten,...  Read More >>

Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern...  Read More >>

This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions...  Read More >>

Explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope's poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope's...  Read More >>

In 1773, Samuel Johnson was persuaded to take a walking tour of Scotland with his friend and future biographer James...  Read More >>

I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish...  Read More >>

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How does the eighteenth century constitute the sixteenth century as an object of thought? Tackling literary history...  Read More >>

In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was...  Read More >>

The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the...  Read More >>

First published in 1892, this is Emma Marshall's fictional account of Thomas Chatterton's troubled life, misdirected...  Read More >>

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The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the colloquium held at the Universitâe Paris-Nanterre, Nanterre, France, March 14-16, 2017.  Read More >>

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For purposes of comparison, the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern.  Read More >>

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations...  Read More >>

Marie Leprince de Beaumont, author of the popular version of La Belle et la Bete is also responsible for an extensive...  Read More >>

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