Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references...  Read More >>

Aimed at researchers and students interested in book history, women's studies and the Renaissance, this is an integrated...  Read More >>

This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, English Literature in History, 1780-1830 is an original and provocative study of the literature...  Read More >>

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, Defoe’s Fiction explores Defoe’s work by considering it in the context of its genre.  Read More >>

Die Berner Trilogie ist ein ausserordentliches Beispiel des reformierten geistlichen Spiels; ihre Edition liefert...  Read More >>

Theyenact processes – assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing,shapeshifting, multi-voiced...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays on Dante's lasting legacy comprises two sections: first, some of today's most renowned...  Read More >>

Fanfiction as a genre has exploded in popularity among young adults in the internet age. It also bears resemblance...  Read More >>

This volume offers a fresh perspective on teaching, re-reading, and expanding the Romantic canon by shedding light...  Read More >>

Featuring 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott,...  Read More >>

These thirty-eight short essays show how Shakespearean drama stages virtue as a capacity for connection within and...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and...  Read More >>

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a ‘stranger’ to English law...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

Volume II covers the poems of Dryden from 1682 to 1685. Together with volume one, the work forms the first part...  Read More >>

This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet...  Read More >>

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These first two volumes in a four-volume edition of Dryden's poems are the result of a complete reappraisal of the...  Read More >>

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This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern...  Read More >>

Volume Four covers poems published between 1693 and 1696, principally Dryden's translations from Juvenal and Persius,...  Read More >>

Rabelais's work is peppered with references and quotations taken from the Bible. From this traditional typology,...  Read More >>