Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of non-schismatic reform,...  Read More >>

Reassesses early negotiations between poetry and the sciences, demonstrating how poetry represents the staging ground...  Read More >>

This unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and...  Read More >>

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Die Poetik erschließt sich mit Blick auf Gattungsdifferenzierungen (Lyrik, Epik, Dramatik, Korrespondenz und Literaturkritik),...  Read More >>

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2022 im November 2022 mit den Reden der...  Read More >>

In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to...  Read More >>

In a context of effervescent exemplarity, the histoires tragiques (1559-1630) use multiple exemplary devices and...  Read More >>

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In a context of effervescent exemplarity, the histoires tragiques (1559-1630) use multiple exemplary devices and...  Read More >>

Considers the interrelated careers of three significant nineteenth-century writers who have never been extensively...  Read More >>

Confronts the racial and ethnic logics of the Oriental subject undergirding the development of Romantic poetics...  Read More >>

A collection featuring essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contribution to the popular...  Read More >>

The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novel  Read More >>

This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal...  Read More >>

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This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge...  Read More >>

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling...  Read More >>

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The studies brought together in this volume tackle different aspects of La Nouvelle Heloise: its writing, its aesthetics,...  Read More >>

What is the role of analogy and its related figures in the development of the travel account, between the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

In Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble draws from literature, art, and personal testimonies from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

This volume of Charles Burney's letters runs from 1794 to 1800, opening with his recovery from illness and ending...  Read More >>