Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This work examines the affinity between paradox and the prose of classical moralists. It studies the appropriation...  Read More >>

Examines how French Renaissance travelers consumed and represented Italian space through writing and the imagination....  Read More >>

Los textos dramáticos se compusieron para ser representados, no para ser leídos. Por supuesto que en primer lugar...  Read More >>

Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy...  Read More >>

Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers,...  Read More >>

This book examines one of the most pervasive, but also perplexing, textual phenomena of the early modern world:...  Read More >>

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Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict...  Read More >>

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict...  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines the polyvalent concept of ""New Worlds"" in the context of medieval and early...  Read More >>

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Teaching British labouring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of...  Read More >>

English summary: Amicitia nel Rinascimento is a critical edition publishing all the Latin poems by Baldassarre...  Read More >>

Pendant des siecles, Quinte-Curce a ete lun des historiens d'Alexandre le Grand les plus lus en Europe. Limitee...  Read More >>

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This work presents three comedies written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his youth, which bear witness to his intense...  Read More >>

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Offering new perspective on the 1719 literary watershed that was Robinson Crusoe, this work argues that Defoe established...  Read More >>

What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's...  Read More >>

An updated reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets.  Read More >>

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""[O]mits the notes and scholarly apparatus of the hardcover, features a new introduction aimed at students and...  Read More >>

A study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination. It charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central...  Read More >>

The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national...  Read More >>