Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16204 books were found.

Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature

Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic...

Author: Joel B. Lande
ISBN: 9781501727115
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing...  Read More >>

Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance

Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention...

Author: Rayna Kalas
ISBN: 9781501730887
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature

Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic...

Author: Joel B. Lande
ISBN: 9781501727108
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing...  Read More >>

Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800

Imagining World Order: Literature and International...

Author: Chenxi Tang
ISBN: 9781501716911
Format: Hardback
$168.83

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Voltaire a Ferney: Adresse a la Posterite Moderne (1758-2015)

Voltaire a Ferney: Adresse a la Posterite Moderne (1758-2015)...

Author: Richard Flamein
ISBN: 9782406068730
Format: Paperback
$179.52

A revolution in posterity took place in the eighteenth century. In Ferney, the aging Voltaire contributed to presenting...  Read More >>

Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota

Early Modern Britain’s Relationship to Its Past: The...

Author: Philip Mark Robinson-Self
ISBN: 9781580443517
Format: Hardback
$316.77

The volume investigates the development and redevelopment of political myths of national origin in the British Isles,...  Read More >>

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation

British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern...

Author: Alexander Grammatikos
ISBN: 9783030080150
Format: Paperback
$171.57

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Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831: A half-told tale

Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831: A half-told tale...

Author: Kathleen Hudson
ISBN: 9781786833396
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England

The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s...

Author: Christopher Corbin
ISBN: 9780367141431
Format: Hardback
$305.00

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did...  Read More >>

The Stuff of Monuments: A Collection of Short Stories

The Stuff of Monuments: A Collection of Short Stories...

Author: Richard a Crousey
ISBN: 9781984570109
Format: Paperback
$33.51

Little things occur regularly, forbidding us to recognize their significance. What ultimately causes them to blossom...  Read More >>

The Stuff of Monuments: A Collection of Short Stories

The Stuff of Monuments: A Collection of Short Stories...

Author: Richard a Crousey
ISBN: 9781984575982
Format: Hardback
$51.62

Little things occur regularly, forbidding us to recognize their significance. What ultimately causes them to blossom...  Read More >>

Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance

Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance...

Author: Russ Leo (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) ,  Katrin Röder (Lecturer in English Literature and Culture, University of Potsdam)
ISBN: 9780198823445
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This book offers a critical re-evaluation of the work of the Warwickshire nobleman Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628),...  Read More >>

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque:...

Author: Emily Kuffner
ISBN: 9789462986800
Format: Hardback
$287.21

This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the...  Read More >>

George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591): Compound of Alchymy

George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591): Compound...

Author: Stanton J. Linden
ISBN: 9781138635494
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This title was first published in 2001. Biographical details for George Ripley (c.1415-c.1490), one of England's...  Read More >>

Dorothy Osborne: Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652-54: Observations on Love, Literature, Politics and Religion

Dorothy Osborne: Letters to Sir William Temple, 1652-54:...

Author: Kenneth Parker
ISBN: 9781138723412
Format: Hardback
$208.00

A revised and updated edition of Dorothy Osborne's letters to the man she would later propose to and marry. Kenneth...  Read More >>

Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England

Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England

Author: Ina Habermann
ISBN: 9781138715608
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In this text, Ina Habermann examines oral defamation in early modern England as both a specific mode of communication...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Festive History: Feasting, Festivity, Fasting and Lent in the Second Henriad

Shakespeare's Festive History: Feasting, Festivity,...

Author: David Ruiter
ISBN: 9781138710856
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Title first published in 2003. The author of this study explores how Shakespeare creates historical characters who...  Read More >>

Women and Gender in 18th-Century Russia

Women and Gender in 18th-Century Russia

Author: Wendy Rosslyn
ISBN: 9781138719484
Format: Hardback
$189.00

This title was first published in 2003. Although the topic of gender has been comparatively well explored with respect...  Read More >>

Lear: The Great Image of Authority

Lear: The Great Image of Authority

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9781665131292
Format: Audio
$29.01

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Lear: The Great Image of Authority

Lear: The Great Image of Authority

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9781665131285
Format: Audio
$29.01

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Persian Poetry, 1500-1900: From the Safavids to the Dawn of the Constitutional Movement

Persian Poetry, 1500-1900: From the Safavids to the...

Author: Ehsan Yarshater
ISBN: 9781845119089
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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