Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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Die klassischen Götter auf Abwegen: Launige Götterbilder in den italienischen und nordalpinen Bildkünsten der Frühen Neuzeit

Die klassischen Götter auf Abwegen: Launige Götterbilder...
Author: Semjon Aron Dreiling ISBN: 9783110427103 Format: Hardback	$205.83
The textual and iconographic reception of classical myths in the early modern period produced a range of different... Read More >>

William Webbe, 'A Discourse of English Poetry' (1586)

William Webbe, 'A Discourse of English Poetry' (1586)...
Author: Sonia Hernández-Santano , Sonia Hernandez-Santano ISBN: 9781781881255 Format: Paperback	$33.61
William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry (1586) is the first printed treatise exclusively dedicated to devising... Read More >>

Merlin on Manstone Mynd

Merlin on Manstone Mynd
Author: Silduan ISBN: 9780993358906 Format: Paperback	$46.62
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Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814

Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National...
Author: Kelly McGuire ISBN: 9781138661462 Format: Paperback	$120.00
This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several... Read More >>

The Mirror of Confusion: The Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama

The Mirror of Confusion: The Representation of French...
Author: Andrew M. Kirk ISBN: 9781138981188 Format: Paperback	$105.00
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: Volume One: Prose

The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: Volume...
Author: Jason Powell (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Saint Joseph's University) ISBN: 9780199228607 Format: Hardback	$448.00
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1504?-42) was England's premier poet during the reign of Henry VIII, and almost certainly the... Read More >>

Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England

Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance...
Author: Erin Sullivan (Senior Lecturer and Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Fellow, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) ISBN: 9780198739654 Format: Hardback	$242.95
An exploration of the vital distinctions Renaissance writers made between grief, godly sorrow, despair, and melancholy,... Read More >>

Renaissance Posthumanism

Renaissance Posthumanism
Author: Joseph Campana , Scott Maisano ISBN: 9780823269563 Format: Paperback	$102.96
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Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?

Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?
Author: Barbara Cassin , Pascale-Anne Brault ISBN: 9780823269518 Format: Paperback	$55.44
Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth... Read More >>

Renaissance Posthumanism

Renaissance Posthumanism
Author: Joseph Campana , Scott Maisano ISBN: 9780823269556 Format: Hardback	$330.00
Renaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods—“Renaissance” signifying a rebirth of the ancient... Read More >>

Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court

Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court...
Author: Audrey Truschke ISBN: 9780231173629 Format: Hardback	$107.95
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Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?

Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?
Author: Barbara Cassin , Pascale-Anne Brault ISBN: 9780823269501 Format: Hardback	$219.12
Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth... Read More >>

No Tomorrow: The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

No Tomorrow: The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment...
Author: Catherine Cusset ISBN: 9780813938837 Format: Paperback	$72.60
Traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century. In this ambitious book,... Read More >>

Le Rossignol Poete Dans l'Antiquite Et a la Renaissance

Le Rossignol Poete Dans l'Antiquite Et a la Renaissance...
Author: Gisele Mathieu-Castellani ISBN: 9782812446405 Format: Paperback	$105.60
Admired by the Ancients, the song of the nightingale challenged the poet to compete with it. This work describes... Read More >>

Oeuvres Completes. Tome IV, 2: Le Second Curieux, Ou Second Discours de la Nature Du Monde Et de Ses Parties: Le Second Curieux, Ou Second Discours de la Nature Du Monde Et de Ses Parties

Oeuvres Completes. Tome IV, 2: Le Second Curieux, Ou...
Author: Pontus de Tyard , Francois Roudaut ISBN: 9782812409721 Format: Paperback	$116.16
After Le Premier Curieux, Le Second Curieux (1557, followed by a new edition with significant additions in 1578)... Read More >>

Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will

Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will
Author: Richard Wilson ISBN: 9781474411349 Format: Paperback	$77.60
A comprehensive rereading of Shakespeare's plays in light of current debates about free speech and toleration. Read More >>

Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning

Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth...
Author: Carolyn D. Williams (University of Reading, UK) ISBN: 9781138979062 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740

Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences...
Author: Lucinda Cole ISBN: 9780472052950 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration

Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration...
Author: Jeanne D′albret , Kathleen M. Llewellyn ISBN: 9780866985451 Format: Paperback	$84.35
This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d’Albret’s Letters to the king, his mother, his brother,... Read More >>

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
Author: Tian Yuan Tan (SOAS, University of London, UK) , Dr Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon) ISBN: 9781472583413 Format: Paperback	$56.99
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Jean Rotrou: Le véritable Saint Genest

Jean Rotrou: Le véritable Saint Genest
Author: R. W. Ladborough ISBN: 9781316601686 Format: Paperback	$41.40
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Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740

Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences...
Author: Lucinda Cole ISBN: 9780472072958 Format: Hardback	$171.47
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft...
Author: Charlotte Gordon ISBN: 9780099592396 Format: Paperback	$24.99
*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4* NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER 'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and... Read More >>

The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre

The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre...
Author: W. R. Streitberger (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Washington) ISBN: 9780198719670 Format: Hardback	$242.00
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1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
Author: Tian Yuan Tan (SOAS, University of London, UK) , Dr Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon) ISBN: 9781472583420 Format: Hardback	$240.00
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