Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly...  Read More >>

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscape of moral philosophy was applied to the specific territories...  Read More >>

Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 explores how female Baptists played a crucial role...  Read More >>

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers...  Read More >>

Siobhán Collins re-evaluates Metempsychosis as a high point of Donne's poetic canon, situating the poem’s somatic...  Read More >>

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino....  Read More >>

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference....  Read More >>

Wieland wird weltweit gelesen. Der vorliegende Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung des...  Read More >>

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This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking...  Read More >>

A study of migration, theology, and daily life, this book focuses on how Puritans crafted and perpetuated a dichotomy...  Read More >>

The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures,...  Read More >>

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Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape...  Read More >>

Susanna Hopton had a flourishing posthumous reputation. Her works were frequently reprinted, and she herself was...  Read More >>

While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism...  Read More >>

Susanna Hopton had a flourishing posthumous reputation. Her works were frequently reprinted, and she herself was...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Life of William Collins,...  Read More >>

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Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>