Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most...  Read More >>

The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly...  Read More >>

The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a language of instruction...  Read More >>

Citing Milton's major prose works from the civil war through to the Restoration, Walker reveals a Milton who is...  Read More >>

Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater,...  Read More >>

All of the essays in this collection investigate and extrapolate understandings of the strange. In presenting contrasts...  Read More >>

Historically, pamphlets have been used as sources for topics ranging from witchcraft to popular politics. Drawing...  Read More >>

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

Fully transcribed and edited here for the first time, Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters eloquently convey how intensely...  Read More >>

First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why...  Read More >>

In exploring the exceptionally well-documented activities of Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706),...  Read More >>

Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers...  Read More >>

Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws...  Read More >>

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need...  Read More >>

Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study...  Read More >>

Siobhán Collins re-evaluates Metempsychosis as a high point of Donne's poetic canon, situating the poem’s somatic...  Read More >>

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means...  Read More >>

Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study...  Read More >>

Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 explores how female Baptists played a crucial role...  Read More >>

The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary...  Read More >>

An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance...  Read More >>

The original publication of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson in 1981 led to a reinterpretation of...  Read More >>

Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and Restoration theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew...  Read More >>