Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16198 books were found.

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in...

Author: Laurie Ellinghausen
ISBN: 9781487529475
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years...  Read More >>

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

Author: Lena Cowen Orlin (Professor of English, Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780198924937
Format: Paperback
$33.95

The Private Life of William Shakespeare breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh, historical,...  Read More >>

Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings

Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings

Author: Professor Kirsten Stirling
ISBN: 9781843847076
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John Donne  Read More >>

L'Affaire Clementine: Une Fraude Pieuse a l'Ere Des Lumieres

L'Affaire Clementine: Une Fraude Pieuse a l'Ere Des...

Author: Stephanie Gehanne Gavoty
ISBN: 9782406164685
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The Clementine affair resulted from the publication of the Lettres du pape Clement XIV by the audacious Louis-Antoine...  Read More >>

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious

The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology...

Author: Nathan Gorelick
ISBN: 9780810146761
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souveränität Im Theater Pierre Corneilles (1636-1643)

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souveränität...

Author: Christian Reidenbach
ISBN: 9783111284729
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Revised and abridged version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitèat Bonn,...  Read More >>

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Transition

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth...

Author: James Harriman-Smith (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781108812832
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its...  Read More >>

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton

Staging Disgust: Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare...

Author: Jennifer Panek (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781009379823
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early...  Read More >>

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall

Author: Herbert Weisinger
ISBN: 9781032730493
Format: Hardback
$194.00

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Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Ryan Netzley
ISBN: 9780810146709
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange...  Read More >>

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Author: Ambereen Dadabhoy
ISBN: 9781032100845
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus....  Read More >>

Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre

Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare:...

Author: Amy Lidster (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009044493
Format: Paperback
$59.49

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we...  Read More >>

Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England

Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early...

Author: Christina Luckyj (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
ISBN: 9781108949521
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Author: Ambereen Dadabhoy
ISBN: 9781032100883
Format: Hardback
$204.00

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus....  Read More >>

Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence...

Author: Pamela L. Cheek
ISBN: 9781512826166
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

Author: Rebecca Lemon
ISBN: 9781512826180
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service...

Author: Urvashi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9781512826272
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781804470947
Format: Paperback
$12.94

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was...  Read More >>

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

Author: Anna Reynolds (University Teacher in Early Modern Literature, University Teacher in Early Modern Literature, University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780198882701
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381391
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations

Author: Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350381407
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""The first book to examine the curious and often overlooked ways in which the lives, interests, work and sense...  Read More >>

Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies – Method and Praxis

Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies – Method and...

Author: Andie Silva ,  Scott Schofield
ISBN: 9781649590602
Format: Paperback
$184.67

A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field.   This collection...  Read More >>

Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

Author: Enrique Fernandez ,  Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
ISBN: 9789004244450
Format: Hardback
$348.48

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