Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16204 books were found.

The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery

The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship:...

Author: Robin Runia
ISBN: 9781138571372
Format: Hardback
$305.00

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has...  Read More >>

Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy

Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy

Author: Richard F. Hardin
ISBN: 9781683931287
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and...  Read More >>

Luther's Epistle of Straw: The Voice of St. James in Reformation Preaching

Luther's Epistle of Straw: The Voice of St. James in...

Author: Jason D. Lane
ISBN: 9783110534993
Format: Hardback
$188.67

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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

Author: Kathy Eden
ISBN: 9780226526645
Format: Paperback
$62.95

Explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance....  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1955): Laureate of Peace

Routledge Revivals: The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1955):...

Author: G. Wilson Knight
ISBN: 9781138307131
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1955, this exegesis on the writings of Alexander Pope reveals the technical felicities of his...  Read More >>

Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric: The Foundacion of Rhetorike by Richard Reynolds (1563) and A Brief Discourse on Rhetoricke by William Medley (1575)

Two Elizabethan Treatises on Rhetoric: The Foundacion...

Author: Guillaume Coatalen
ISBN: 9789004322301
Format: Hardback
$385.44

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The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 166-173

The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture,...

Author: David Alff
ISBN: 9780812249590
Format: Hardback
$197.87

The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects-concrete...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard

Shakespeare, Caravaggio, and the Indistinct Regard

Author: Rocco Coronato
ISBN: 9780815376347
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison...  Read More >>

Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and Retrospection, 1820 - 1850

Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and...

Author: Beatrice Turner
ISBN: 9783319649696
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin...  Read More >>

Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England

Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England

Author: Paola Pugliatti
ISBN: 9781138719378
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In this socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Pugliatti investigates...  Read More >>

Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain

Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment...

Author: Joseph Drury (Associate Professor of English Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780191834394
Format: Undefined
$237.60

Eighteenth-century fiction is full of mechanical devices and contrivances: Robinson Crusoe uses his gun and compass...  Read More >>

Sidney, Spenser and the Royal Reader

Sidney, Spenser and the Royal Reader

Author: Shormishtha Panja
ISBN: 9781527503212
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Elizabeth I of England, as a female monarch who did not heed counsel, particularly in the events surrounding the...  Read More >>

Milton Studies: Volume 58, Milton in the Americas

Milton Studies: Volume 58, Milton in the Americas

Author: Elizabeth Sauer ,  Angelica Duran
ISBN: 9780820707051
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Special issue of the award-winning forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, highlighting Milton's pan-American...  Read More >>

From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage

From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance...

Author: Lisa Hopkins
ISBN: 9781580442794
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Examines the late 16th- and early 17th-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between...  Read More >>

The Invention of Female Biography

The Invention of Female Biography

Author: Gina Luria Walker
ISBN: 9781848936003
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing...  Read More >>

Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture

Spectral Sea: Mediterranean Palimpsests in European...

Author: Stephen G. Nichols ,  Andreas Kablitz
ISBN: 9781433143175
Format: Hardback
$334.49

The essays in this book lay bare the dynamics of cultural confrontation between Europe and the Mediterranean world...  Read More >>

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