Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation...  Read More >>

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading,...  Read More >>

This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan...  Read More >>

The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical...  Read More >>

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new...  Read More >>

This book explores the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, Scottish poet, largely unknown to modern scholars....  Read More >>

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures,...  Read More >>

This is the first volume since George Sherburn’s (published 1934) to reconsider how the most influential poet of...  Read More >>

This book examines bees in the early modern English and American literary and cultural traditions, exploring the...  Read More >>

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn...  Read More >>

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of ‘unspeakable’...  Read More >>

The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European...  Read More >>

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life...  Read More >>

This book investigates the backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of aesthetic-historical...  Read More >>

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Eliza Haywood’s writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda,...  Read More >>

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This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to...  Read More >>

In this Handbook, Karen Raber and Holly Dugan delve deep into Shakespeare’s World to illuminate and understand the...  Read More >>

In this book, Marijn S. Kaplan juxtaposes Riccoboni’s epistolary fiction with some of her relatively unknown letters...  Read More >>

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Provides an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as...  Read More >>