Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours...  Read More >>

In late medieval and early modern Europe, death could reinforce, question or efface the category of gender, as evidenced...  Read More >>

This edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several...  Read More >>

This incisive entry in the Classical Presences series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of...  Read More >>

Explores the extent to which members of the royal family have appropriated the creative legacy of Shakespeare, from...  Read More >>

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals...  Read More >>

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals...  Read More >>

Studying Marcel Proust's sources and his relationship to his reading materials makes it possible to cut to the heart...  Read More >>

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The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an...  Read More >>

Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama:...  Read More >>

Perrault's tales contain very little in the way of the supernatural but are riddled with apparent improbabilities....  Read More >>

Perrault's tales contain very little in the way of the supernatural but are riddled with apparent improbabilities....  Read More >>

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Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national...  Read More >>

Each of the chapters is self-contained and places its topic in relation to past and current critical debates, but...  Read More >>

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary...  Read More >>

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Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking...  Read More >>