Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

The Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts...  Read More >>

The comedies of Quinault, written between 1653 and 1665, reveal a skillful playwright and a virtuoso writer. They...  Read More >>

Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.S....  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, taking as its...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual...  Read More >>

The publication of the Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1521) was a determining factor in the...  Read More >>

This book investigates the literary production of the Calvinist Fulke Greville and the Jesuit Robert Southwell —their...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

This book uncovers the centrality and complexity of notions of freedom in Montaigne's thought, thereby challenging...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

In dem geistigen Klima der Renaissance bluht die Dramenkultur im 'volgare' auf. Das Bemuhen gilt dem Wiedergewinnen...  Read More >>