Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

16215 books were found.

Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work

Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts: Typographic Inscription,...

Author: P. Simonsen
ISBN: 9781349357239
Format: Paperback
$145.17

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed...  Read More >>

Spectacle, Sex, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Spectacle, Sex, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature...

Author: Julie A. Chappell ,  Kamille Stone Stanton
ISBN: 9780404670030
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Spectacle, Sex, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture operates within a multiplicity of critical...  Read More >>

Histéresis creativa: La injusticia distributiva en el origen de la expansión de la cultura cortesana, la """"comedia nueva"""" y la estética picaresca

Histéresis creativa: La injusticia distributiva en el...

Author: Vicente Pérez de León
ISBN: 9781469627168
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Traces how courtly spectacles, short and full-length plays, and picaresque narratives arose under Philip III of...  Read More >>

Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in...

Author: Elizabeth Yale
ISBN: 9780812247817
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city...  Read More >>

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi:...

Author: Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
ISBN: 9781138185982
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi situates the diverse textual projects of ‘Abd al-Qādir “Bīdil”...  Read More >>

The Dunciad in Four Books

The Dunciad in Four Books

Author: Valerie Rumbold
ISBN: 9781138137721
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock

Author: Alexander Pope ,  Geoffrey Tillotson
ISBN: 9781138135956
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity

Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity...

Author: Vivien Jones
ISBN: 9781138136212
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Complementing the current upsurge in feminist writing on the eighteenth century, and giving students the chance...  Read More >>

Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic...

Author: Juliet Shields (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780190272555
Format: Hardback
$179.95

Nation and Migration provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants,...  Read More >>

Defoe’s Major Fiction: Accounting for the Self

Defoe’s Major Fiction: Accounting for the Self

Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
ISBN: 9781611496130
Format: Hardback
$199.00

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The Joseph Johnson Letterbook

The Joseph Johnson Letterbook

Author: John Bugg (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780199644247
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential Romantic-era...  Read More >>

Historical Literatures: Writing About the Past in England, 1660–1740

Historical Literatures: Writing About the Past in England,...

Author: Noelle Gallagher ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719099243
Format: Paperback
$38.99

Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early-eighteenth century...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne

Author: Jeanne Shami (Professor of English,, Professor of English,, University of Regina, Saskatchewan) ,  Dennis Flynn (Professor of English, Professor of English, Bentley University)
ISBN: 9780198715573
Format: Paperback
$68.95

With over fifty newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of John Donne...  Read More >>

Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798)

Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry...

Author: J. D. Schmidt
ISBN: 9781138863415
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Shelley and the Apprehension of Life

Shelley and the Apprehension of Life

Author: Ross Wilson (University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9781107628625
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Set within the wider context of Romantic poetry and the opposition between 'living' and 'embracing life', this book...  Read More >>

Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel...

Author: Chloe Wigston Smith (University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781316600931
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the...  Read More >>

Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558

Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars,...

Author: Mary C. Erler (Fordham University, New York)
ISBN: 9781316601938
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book presents detailed biographical case studies of English religious men and women, and their reading and...  Read More >>

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Author: Paddy Bullard (University of Kent, Canterbury) ,  James McLaverty (Keele University)
ISBN: 9781316600955
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This collection of essays addresses the relationship between Swift and the world of commercial print, and in so...  Read More >>

Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age

Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural...

Author: Jon Klancher (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781316600962
Format: Paperback
$82.80

In this original and important study, leading scholar Jon Klancher discusses how early nineteenth-century writers...  Read More >>

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 5

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume...

Author: Lisa Zunshine
ISBN: 9781138660427
Format: Paperback
$105.00

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded  Read More >>

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 3

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume...

Author: Lisa Zunshine
ISBN: 9781138660410
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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