Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Commissioned by the Marquise de Maintenon, who was seeking to consolidate her noble origins, this biography of Agrippa...  Read More >>

Commissioned by the Marquise de Maintenon, who was seeking to consolidate her noble origins, this biography of Agrippa...  Read More >>

This work lays the foundation for a reevaluation of Jean-Baptiste Chassignet's poetic oeuvre. Taking an erudite,...  Read More >>

""""The first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic...  Read More >>

Discusses the ways in which post-Reformation devotional practices informed expressions of desire in the poetry of...  Read More >>

Explores the mindset in which people approached reading and writing in the sixteenth century, specifically the idea...  Read More >>

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This book examines Diderot’s and d’Holbach’s views on determinism to illuminate some of the most important debates...  Read More >>

Information Text: In the early modern period, numerous texts deal with professions by presenting the knowledge...  Read More >>

""En se tenant dâelibâerâement áa l'âecart des grands genres poâetiques, la poâesie lâegáere du XVIIIe siáecle a...  Read More >>

"""En se tenant d�elib�er�ement �a l'�ecart des grands genres po�etiques, la po�esie l�eg�ere du XVIIIe si�ecle...  Read More >>

Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare's love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and...  Read More >>

As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach, the topic of consent has come under scrutiny....  Read More >>

A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory...  Read More >>

Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare's love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and...  Read More >>

As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach, the topic of consent has come under scrutiny....  Read More >>

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The Enlightenment is regarded as a crucial process and period of development in European cultural history, which...  Read More >>

Explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the...  Read More >>

Explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the...  Read More >>

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Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history,...  Read More >>

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This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.  Read More >>