Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Examines the intersections of literary, religious, and cultural history as they pertain to the slow acceptance by...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary and employing a broad range of sources, this book establishes, for the first time, the significant...  Read More >>

These essays refute the notion that the 18th century was fashioned in a distinctly negative way by the Whigs.  Read More >>

Clara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work, his public image and the reception of his writings through the...  Read More >>

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Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, wrote her juvenile journal in the form of a...  Read More >>

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Heike Jablonski examines how discourses of martyrdom shaped 18th- and 19th-century American culture by delineating...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’...  Read More >>

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Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures...  Read More >>

In ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum offers parallel versions, a translation and a linguistic analysis of three 19th-century...  Read More >>

This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern...  Read More >>

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This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in...  Read More >>

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Milton in Translation demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception, from the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

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The Papist Represented situates eighteenth-century literature within the history and culture of the English Catholic...  Read More >>

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