Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Draws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with...  Read More >>

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Considers lyrical works and the reception of Petrarch's poetry in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

Draws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with...  Read More >>

This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing...  Read More >>

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery. McGinnis and Smyth...  Read More >>

Gegenstand der Studie sind die Invektiven des frankischen Reichsritters Ulrich von Hutten und seiner Gegner. Von...  Read More >>

The only volume to comprehensively bring together developments from different disciplines that address the complex...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking volume that unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how...  Read More >>

In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device - the surrogate...  Read More >>

This book is for Romantic era scholars/students interested in revising their view on major Romantic texts by reading...  Read More >>

This book explores the complex relationship between British literature and culture, and the East in the late eighteenth...  Read More >>

This book will interest anyone who is curious about how Shakespeare became the presiding deity of English literature....  Read More >>

A groundbreaking volume that unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how...  Read More >>

In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device - the surrogate...  Read More >>

This monograph examines the trans-national imagination in travel reports written between 1770 and 1830. The chapters...  Read More >>

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom...  Read More >>

Das Handbuch dokumentiert den Stand der Idyllenforschung und zeigt neue Wege auf, um die ‚Idylle‘ und das ‚Idyllische‘...  Read More >>

Boccaccio's Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show...  Read More >>

Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality...  Read More >>

Fur eine Kulturgeschichte des Wissens ist das 18. Jahrhundert von entscheidender Bedeutung. In den Verhandlungen...  Read More >>

The first complete English-language edition of the work of Renaissance poet Clément Marot.   Clément Marot’s Epistles...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into...  Read More >>

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  Read More >>