Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable...  Read More >>

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The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray)...  Read More >>

'Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon and indicates where and how...  Read More >>

This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens a new window onto a crucial example of...  Read More >>

Accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, this English-language edition of Karel van...  Read More >>

Cryptology of the long eighteenth century became an explicit discipline of secrecy. Theorized in pedagogical texts...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of government in the governing process of Bangladesh, identifies & explains the implications...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of government in the governing process of Bangladesh, identifies & explains the implications...  Read More >>

This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and 'renegades'...  Read More >>

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.  Read More >>

In Le Pour et Contre, the periodical he created upon returning from England, the Abbe Prevost tirelessly described...  Read More >>

Der Band eröffnet interdisziplinäre Zugriffe auf die Dynamik affektiver Normen und Normierungen in der Frühen Neuzeit....  Read More >>

This Palgrave Pivot argues for the significance of allegory in Enlightenment writing. While eighteenth-century allegory...  Read More >>

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The first full-length study to fully situate Herbert's verse in the early modern culture from which it emerged,...  Read More >>

Matthew Day reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. In emphasizing...  Read More >>

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First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought...  Read More >>

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne’s life which emphasizes those experiences which...  Read More >>

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""A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers...  Read More >>

Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings...  Read More >>