Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, this book establishes that the playwright...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

This book reveals the development of a progressive sense of honor and dignity – against its usual counterpoint,...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Grotius on the Dutch Revolt and the fundamentality of reason of state  Read More >>

Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume have helped to renew the study of Marie de Gournay's work. As well as the dialogue...  Read More >>

This volume presents 145 letters, unpublished for the most part, written by Voltaire to his niece Marie-Louise Denis,...  Read More >>

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two...  Read More >>

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft...  Read More >>

This volume presents 145 letters, unpublished for the most part, written by Voltaire to his niece Marie-Louise Denis,...  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume have helped to renew the study of Marie de Gournay's work. As well as the dialogue...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory...  Read More >>

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two...  Read More >>

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft...  Read More >>

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How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare?...  Read More >>

Should a philosopher be vegetarian? This question had been famously answered in the affirmative in a classic work...  Read More >>

As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts....  Read More >>

This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian...  Read More >>

Euhemerism and Its Uses is an inter-disciplinary volume, bringing together experts on classical, mediaeval and Renaissance...  Read More >>

This volume synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment...  Read More >>