Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality,...  Read More >>

Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book...  Read More >>

The end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century saw the unprecedented rise of the romance novel....  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First...  Read More >>

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Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play’s reception both...  Read More >>

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This volume collates essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, and explores the changes that have occurred...  Read More >>

 The essays in this volume represent the best of recent critical writing on Romantic literature, and include contributions...  Read More >>

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First published in 1953, this book examines Blake’s vision and its impact on the work of Yeats who imitated Blake...  Read More >>

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First published in 1982 this book provides a bibliography of commentary, criticism, and scholarship on the works...  Read More >>

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First published in 1986, this book starts from the premise that Blake’s poem Jerusalem is in effect his defence...  Read More >>

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Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability...  Read More >>

This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of Macpherson's ""poems of...  Read More >>

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