Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton,...  Read More >>

The author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory...  Read More >>

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations...  Read More >>

This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s...  Read More >>

Countering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety...  Read More >>

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Exploring the peculiar alliances between childishness and affect that are posted in the long eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

Unter 'Kulturen des Buches' werden die vielfaltigen Manifestationen, Gebrauchssituationen und Symbolisierungen verstanden,...  Read More >>

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The Rise of Animals analyzes the intellectual origins of our changing attitudes about animals and illuminates major...  Read More >>

Much work has been done on surveying the historical record concerning the so-called ""Addled Parliament"" of 1614....  Read More >>

This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production...  Read More >>

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.  Read More >>

Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties...  Read More >>

"Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstocks Hermann-Dramen erschienen 1769, 1784 und 1787. Mit der großen Resonanz der ""Hermanns...  Read More >>

A presentation of the aspect of rhetoric dealing with figures, and Shakespeare's use of them in thirteen plays covering...  Read More >>

The pen was as mighty as the musket during the American Revolution, as poets waged literary war against politicians,...  Read More >>

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Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to...  Read More >>