Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16204 books were found.

Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom: Creativity in Early English Literature and History Courses

Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom:...
Author: Anna Riehl Bertolet , Carole Levin ISBN: 9780866985949 Format: Paperback	$105.60
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The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France

The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological...
Author: Jeffrey N. Peters ISBN: 9780810136977 Format: Paperback	$92.27
In The Written World, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating... Read More >>

An Essay on Man

An Essay on Man
Author: Alexander Pope , Tom Jones ISBN: 9780691181059 Format: Paperback	$32.99
A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it ""the... Read More >>

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 17: Special Section, Shakespeare and Value

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 17: Special...
Author: Tom Bishop , Alexa Joubin ISBN: 9781138497108 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature

Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature...
Author: Claire Bardelmann ISBN: 9781138579811 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire: Purging Satire

Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance...
Author: Jay Simons ISBN: 9781138603882 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric... Read More >>

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World...
Author: Markman Ellis , Richard Coulton ISBN: 9781780238982 Format: Paperback	$37.99
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The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality

The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From...
Author: Ling Hon Lam ISBN: 9780231187947 Format: Hardback	$107.95
Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea... Read More >>

Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America...
Author: Benjamin Hoffmann (The Ohio State University) , Alan J. Singerman (Davidson College) ISBN: 9780271080079 Format: Hardback	$217.00
An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann’s French monograph L’Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization... Read More >>

Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime: L’interlocuteur absent dans la fiction monophonique

Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime: L’interlocuteur...
Author: Isabelle Tremblay ISBN: 9789004368910 Format: Hardback	$380.16
Dans Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime, Isabelle Tremblay analyse les modes de présence de l’interlocuteur... Read More >>

Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel...
Author: Bryan Mangano ISBN: 9783319839967 Format: Paperback	$263.97
Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship... Read More >>

Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century

Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery,...
Author: Deirdre Coleman ISBN: 9781786940537 Format: Hardback	$396.00
This book enriches our understanding of Romanticism and colonialism by telling the story of Henry Smeathman (1742-86),... Read More >>

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829
Author: Christina Morin ISBN: 9780719099175 Format: Hardback	$183.99
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Three Metaphors for Life: Derzhavin's Late Poetry

Three Metaphors for Life: Derzhavin's Late Poetry
Author: Tatiana Smoliarova , Ronald Meyer ISBN: 9781618115737 Format: Hardback	$270.00
This monograph explores this coexistence of ""archaist and innovator"" in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian... Read More >>

Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts...
Author: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland) , Gillian Wright (University of Birmingham, UK) ISBN: 9780815362029 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Donne’s God

Donne’s God
Author: P.M. Oliver ISBN: 9781138065314 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Feeling Time: Duration, the Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Sensibility

Feeling Time: Duration, the Novel, and Eighteenth-Century...
Author: Amit S. Yahav ISBN: 9780812250176 Format: Hardback	$171.47
Feeling Time highlights the temporal underpinnings of the eighteenth century's culture of sensibility, arguing that... Read More >>

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Author: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) ISBN: 9780393635751 Format: Hardback	$41.75
World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad)... Read More >>

It is Foul Weather in Us All

It is Foul Weather in Us All
Author: Riccardo Boglione ISBN: 9781910055441 Format: Paperback	$38.81
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Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and Beyond

Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine...
Author: Erika Gielen , Michele Goyens ISBN: 9782503579146 Format: Hardback	$396.00
The authority of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) in reviving human anatomy is without any doubt a landmark in the history... Read More >>

The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in...
Author: Robbie Richardson ISBN: 9781487503444 Format: Hardback	$130.00
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Jane Austen and Performance

Jane Austen and Performance
Author: Marina Cano ISBN: 9783319829555 Format: Paperback	$263.97
The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which... Read More >>

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Cardenio/Double...
Author: Deborah C. Payne ISBN: 9783319835334 Format: Paperback	$158.37
This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio,... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Double Plays: Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage

Shakespeare's Double Plays: Dramatic Economy on the...
Author: Brett Gamboa (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) ISBN: 9781108417433 Format: Hardback	$335.28
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Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature

Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature
Author: Timothy Rosendale (Southern Methodist University, Texas) ISBN: 9781108418843 Format: Hardback	$335.28
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