Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but...  Read More >>

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The Reader in the Book examines the history, archaeology, and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces...  Read More >>

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Meteorology and Physiology in Early Modern Culture: Earthquakes, Human Identity, and Textual Representation provides...  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. Hazel...  Read More >>

Novel Machines explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

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This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change....  Read More >>

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Par rapport a d'autres centres, la production d'ouvrages imprimes en grec commence assez tard a Rome, dans la seconde...  Read More >>

How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering...  Read More >>

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First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge’s literary criticism against the background of his philosophical...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading...  Read More >>

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines...  Read More >>

What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot...  Read More >>

The author has chosen four representative texts for inclusion in this volume. They have been chosen to illustrate...  Read More >>

Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, the...  Read More >>

The author analyzes how the concept of labor as a calling, which was assisted by early modern experiments in democracy,...  Read More >>

The author's treatment of Bible criticism and eighteenth-century religious reform movements reveal the often-neglected...  Read More >>

Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s shows for the first time how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas...  Read More >>

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