Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

In French seventeenth-century tragedy, love - for the first time in the history of the genre - plays a pivotal role...  Read More >>

Covers sex in William Blake’s works and Blake’s personal views about sex, and offers a more general overview of...  Read More >>

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Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.  Read More >>

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship...  Read More >>

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

Im Zentrum der Luxusdiskussion des 18. Jahrhunderts stehen nicht Objektqualitäten, sondern Praktiken. Zumindest...  Read More >>

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A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a...  Read More >>

What does it mean for early modern theatre to be ‘live’? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of ‘liveness’?...  Read More >>

What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of France’s...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two greatest epics of the Indigenous...  Read More >>

Its chapters framed by the editors’ deeply researched introduction and theorist Caroline Levine’s reflective afterword...  Read More >>

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Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters....  Read More >>

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

This study deals with the phenomenon of Early Modern encyclopedic annotation apparatuses on Baroque tragedy and...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance...  Read More >>

Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding...  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In this book Michele Speitz...  Read More >>

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The volume presents new perspectives on the life and work of Manuel de Nájera, one of the most prominent preachers...  Read More >>