Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

In a departure from conventional biographies, this book concentrates on Hunter’s position at the very centre of...  Read More >>

An examination of the language and style of the work to demonstrate Smith’s engagement with the challenges which...  Read More >>

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This edited volume explores prose from the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England to the rise of...  Read More >>

The complete essays of Michel De Montaigne, the French Renaissance philosopher whose writings influenced such giants...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It...  Read More >>

Juan Luis Vives’ 1533 treatise on rhetoric, De ratione dicendi, is a highly original but largely neglected Renaissance...  Read More >>

Examining the divergent but interlocking careers of Robert Greene, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Nashe,...  Read More >>

Satan is certainly a wonderful creation, but Adam and Eve are also complex and well-drawn, and God may be the most...  Read More >>

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on ten key figures of the so-called Johnson circle. It explores their characters, their contributions...  Read More >>

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession...  Read More >>

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic,...  Read More >>

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had...  Read More >>

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars...  Read More >>

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The scholarly analysis of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has seen siginificant advances in enabling a more contextualized...  Read More >>

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This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the...  Read More >>

In enigmate is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated and transformed over more than a thousand...  Read More >>

This guide is ideal for use in the classroom or for revision, providing insight into characterisation, contexts...  Read More >>

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The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature offers a comprehensive view of the picaresque genre, its origins, definition...  Read More >>