Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16205 books were found.

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology

Author: Wilt L. Idema
ISBN: 9780295999869
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840: ‘Electrick Communication Every Where’

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840: ‘Electrick...

Author: Mary Fairclough
ISBN: 9781137593146
Format: Hardback
$316.77

The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture

Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance...

Author: Agnès Lafont
ISBN: 9781138254633
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays...  Read More >>

Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England

Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England

Author: Douglas A. Brooks
ISBN: 9781138274679
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman

Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman

Author: Lucinda M. Becker
ISBN: 9781138277946
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800

Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800

Author: Nicole Pohl
ISBN: 9781138264816
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550–1900

Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across...

Author: Claire Farago
ISBN: 9781138261952
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology: 'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...'

Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology:...

Author: Elizabeth S. Dodd
ISBN: 9781138053083
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it...  Read More >>

Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire et le Malentendu

Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire et le Malentendu

Author: Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198796626
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Jessica Goodman sheds new light on Carlo Goldoni's experience as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, and on his critical...  Read More >>

What Was Tragedy?: Theory and the Early Modern Canon

What Was Tragedy?: Theory and the Early Modern Canon...

Author: Blair Hoxby (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780198810599
Format: Paperback
$116.41

What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing...  Read More >>

Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science

Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil...

Author: Hillary Eklund
ISBN: 9780820704999
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Rooted in the interpretive field of ecocriticism, this collection asks what we can learn from representations of...  Read More >>

A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820

A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and...

Author: JoEllen DeLucia
ISBN: 9781474423151
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Sarah Eron
ISBN: 9781611496499
Format: Paperback
$123.00

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the...  Read More >>

The Shakespearean World

The Shakespearean World

Author: Jill L Levenson ,  Robert Ormsby
ISBN: 9780415732529
Format: Hardback
$483.00

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Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel: Fielding to Austen

Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel: Fielding...

Author: Roger Maioli
ISBN: 9783319398587
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction....  Read More >>

The Italian

The Italian

Author: Ann Radcliffe ,  Nick Groom (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198704430
Format: Paperback
$21.95

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Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770–1833

Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the...

Author: Elizabeth A. Bohls (University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9781107438163
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Elizabeth A. Bohls presents an interdisciplinary study of non-fictional literature about the colonial Caribbean,...  Read More >>

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