Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to...  Read More >>

This book investigates the backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of aesthetic-historical...  Read More >>

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look...  Read More >>

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The Pharsalia is probably the Latin work that is the most in line with the Baroque period. This study analyzes the...  Read More >>

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The Pharsalia is probably the Latin work that is the most in line with the Baroque period. This study analyzes the...  Read More >>

Drawing on scholarly research, artist experience, and audience behaviour, This Distracted Globe considers the disruptive,...  Read More >>

À partir de la trajectoire spécifique de l'auteur jésuite Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1526-1611), à la fois personnalité...  Read More >>

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath...  Read More >>

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Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage  Read More >>

How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested...  Read More >>

From the mid-17th century, an inner-Catholic reform movement congregated around the idea of Jansenism, updating...  Read More >>

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during...  Read More >>

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley...  Read More >>

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

Der Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat...  Read More >>

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to...  Read More >>

Le Malade imaginaire de Moliere. Auteur et homme de theatre francais (1622-1673).  Read More >>

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic....  Read More >>

Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the...  Read More >>

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Analyses documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French...  Read More >>