Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This volume collects together for the first time the best contemporary published work on the dramatist and author...  Read More >>

Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays by current scholars spanning a range of topics and time periods that reflect...  Read More >>

Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical,...  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 >>

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual...  Read More >>

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

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

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

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought...  Read More >>

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne’s life which emphasizes those experiences which...  Read More >>

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

This new edition of Daniel Defoe's final novel, under Defoe's original title The Fortunate Mistress, provides an...  Read More >>

It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in...  Read More >>

This is a comprehensive collection of essays on the life, work, and times of the Elizabethan writer and courtier,...  Read More >>

This volume presents together with contextualizing headnotes and annotations all of Anna Letitia Barbauld's known...  Read More >>

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This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter presents a photo-facsimile of the 1607 quarto,...  Read More >>

Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity....  Read More >>

The book examines the representation of affective complexity in the literary and pictorial arts of Northern Europe...  Read More >>

The book examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale which became an important topic in the visual arts, 1500-1800....  Read More >>