Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Extensive historical documents provide a rich framework for this new edition of the first English revenge tragedy....  Read More >>

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What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's...  Read More >>

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First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which...  Read More >>

Building on recent Petrarch scholarship and broader studies of medieval poetics, poetic narrativity, and biblical...  Read More >>

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Excerpt: ...of beauty seems to have hung upon a kind of self-love, and a carelessness in the work of art of all...  Read More >>

What If I Were President Obama is a satire book about his strengths and weakness with in depth analysis of the first...  Read More >>

Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably...  Read More >>

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Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets,...  Read More >>

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This sixth volume devoted to the Adages completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs...  Read More >>

Wichtige Erschließungshilfe der Kommentarbände und Ergänzung des Registerbandes 10: In alphabetischer Ordnung werden...  Read More >>

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The organization of Shakespeare's plays has baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century. It is not the...  Read More >>

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

A lively and thought-provoking study of two major icons of Anglophone culture - the Bible and the works of William...  Read More >>