Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Suicide and the Gothic is the first study of the representation of suicide in Gothic texts from the eighteenth century...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look...  Read More >>

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds....  Read More >>

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Religion moved people in 18th-century Europe like no other topic. But how to speak publicly about religion when,...  Read More >>

Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive,...  Read More >>

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath...  Read More >>

Recovering Cervantes' career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic...  Read More >>

À partir de la trajectoire spécifique de l'auteur jésuite Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1526-1611), à la fois personnalité...  Read More >>

For readers interested in exploring the history of emotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory...  Read More >>

Examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and...  Read More >>

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The Pharsalia is probably the Latin work that is the most in line with the Baroque period. This study analyzes the...  Read More >>

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to...  Read More >>

The Pharsalia is probably the Latin work that is the most in line with the Baroque period. This study analyzes the...  Read More >>

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley...  Read More >>

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

Der Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat...  Read More >>

Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German...  Read More >>

Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the...  Read More >>

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Daniel Defoe established the genre of the novel with Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe. He also wrote pioneering...  Read More >>

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