Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16205 books were found.

Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian Legacy

Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare,...

Author: Gabriela agnea Horvath
ISBN: 9781472436276
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Analyzing Shakespeare's ideas on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light...  Read More >>

Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton: Paradise Lost

Author: Alastair Fowler
ISBN: 9781138418370
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" is one of the great works of literature. This work provides contextual information and...  Read More >>

A Preface to Pope

A Preface to Pope

Author: Ian Robert Fraser Gordon
ISBN: 9781138418387
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Rewritten, to take account of the Pope studies and criticism published since the first edition appeared in 1976....  Read More >>

'Tis Pity She's A Whore: John Ford

'Tis Pity She's A Whore: John Ford

Author: John Ford ,  Simon Barker
ISBN: 9781138418219
Format: Hardback
$399.00

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Roman Epic

Roman Epic

Author: Anthony J. Boyle
ISBN: 9781138411029
Format: Hardback
$399.00

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The National Habitus: Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870

The National Habitus: Ways of Feeling French, 1789–1870...

Author: Marie-Pierre Le Hir
ISBN: 9783110559231
Format: Paperback
$34.23

By distinguishing between two groups of French writers, three who experienced the 1789 revolution as adults (de...  Read More >>

Kontur: Geschichte einer ästhetischen Denkfigur

Kontur: Geschichte einer ästhetischen Denkfigur

Author: Charlotte Kurbjuhn
ISBN: 9783110553611
Format: Paperback
$59.97

The aesthetic categories ""outline"" and ""contour"" are of central importance in the history of literature on art....  Read More >>

Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

Author: Alexandra Coller
ISBN: 9781472478818
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700...

Author: Lorna Hutson (Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199660889
Format: Hardback
$257.00

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new,...  Read More >>

Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature

Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature

Author: Kathleen Miller ,  Crawford Gribben
ISBN: 9781526113245
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Luis de Camões: The Poet as Scriptural Exegete

Luis de Camões: The Poet as Scriptural Exegete

Author: John V. Fleming (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781855663145
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camões's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of ""spiritual""...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers

The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the...

Author: Alex Wong
ISBN: 9781843844662
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820

The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain:...

Author: Mark Knights ,  Adam Morton (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781783272037
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to...  Read More >>

Goethe Yearbook 24

Goethe Yearbook 24

Author: Adrian Daub (Contributor) ,  Elisabeth Krimmer (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781571139771
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section...  Read More >>

An Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

An Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of...

Author: Ruth Scobie
ISBN: 9781912302901
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Wollstonecraft’s 1792 work sets out all the chief principles of feminist thought developed by later feminist writers...  Read More >>

Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life

Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life

Author: Gerard Kilroy
ISBN: 9781138089075
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive...

Author: Paula McDowell
ISBN: 9780226456966
Format: Hardback
$79.95

Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter All

Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter...

Author: Kevin J. Donovan ,  Thomas Festa
ISBN: 9780820707020
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Original essays explore the concepts of materialism and embodiment as depicted by Milton in his fascinating portraits...  Read More >>

Early Modern Women and the Poem

Early Modern Women and the Poem

Author: Susan Wiseman
ISBN: 9781526116840
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and...

Author: Åslaug Ommundsen (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Tuomas Heikkilä (The Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781472478580
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book sheds light on the fragments from Latin manuscripts as sources to determine the establishment and development...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory

Author: François-Xavier Gleyzon (University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA) ,  Johann Gregory (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
ISBN: 9781138094840
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory convenes internationally renowned Shakespeare scholars, and scholars of the...  Read More >>

Quixote: The Novel and the World

Quixote: The Novel and the World

Author: Ilan Stavans (Amherst College)
ISBN: 9780393353426
Format: Paperback
$27.95

An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the...  Read More >>

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