Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying...  Read More >>

In 1773, Samuel Johnson was persuaded to take a walking tour of Scotland with his friend and future biographer James...  Read More >>

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity...  Read More >>

Although it is well known as a very ancient stylistic device, Periphrasis is yet the poor cousin of Rhetoric studies....  Read More >>

Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual...  Read More >>

Although it is well known as a very ancient stylistic device, Periphrasis is yet the poor cousin of Rhetoric studies....  Read More >>

Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of the thought and literary achievement of Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867)....  Read More >>

Jane Austen, Unabridged takes readers on a journey through the prolific author's life with private letters, unpublished...  Read More >>

An exploration of the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables to investigate their relationship...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Tristan Alonge, Amelie Auzoux, Clara de Courson, Alain Faudemay, Nicolas Frery, Bernard Gendrel,...  Read More >>

This unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the complex phenomenon of exegetical work produced from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century...  Read More >>

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This unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers...  Read More >>

This project explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating...  Read More >>

This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama,...  Read More >>

A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolution  Read More >>

Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of early modern contentment, this book examines the intersection of this guiding principle...  Read More >>

It can benefit scholars interested in exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in enriching their...  Read More >>