Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of...  Read More >>

This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several...  Read More >>

Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from...  Read More >>

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process....  Read More >>

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an...  Read More >>

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Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama:...  Read More >>

Studying Marcel Proust's sources and his relationship to his reading materials makes it possible to cut to the heart...  Read More >>

This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby...  Read More >>

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Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but...  Read More >>

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

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This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary...  Read More >>

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The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national...  Read More >>

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First published in 1978, Alexander Pope is an introduction to Pope’s life and work, which sets the poet solidly...  Read More >>

"First published in 1964, The Art of Discrimination is a study in the relation between critical theory and practice,...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking...  Read More >>

First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature...  Read More >>

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons....  Read More >>

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