Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Reading Pierre Corneille's Melite ou Les Fausses lettres (1629) in the light of the history and the theory of gender...  Read More >>

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena...  Read More >>

Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary...  Read More >>

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies...  Read More >>

This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores...  Read More >>

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning...  Read More >>

This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores...  Read More >>

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning...  Read More >>

The poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), Gothic novelist and friend of Robert Burns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery...  Read More >>

En un siècle marqué par d’incessantes querelles théologiques et d’innombrables conflits armés, auxquels s’ajoutent...  Read More >>

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom...  Read More >>

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical...  Read More >>

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"In Band 39 der ""Sinologica Coloniensia"" zeigt Martin Gimm die literarische Bedeutung des Kaisers Qianlong auf,...  Read More >>

The treatises collected here, from the end of the Grand Siecle to the beginning of the nineteenth century, show...  Read More >>

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively...  Read More >>

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This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures...  Read More >>

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures...  Read More >>

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr...  Read More >>

A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of 'source' study in relation to Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Featuring nine chapters by a group of internationally renowned scholars, this book recovers Cowley’s unique achievement...  Read More >>

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Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth...  Read More >>