Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Using a surprising approach, this collection demonstrates the literary practices and obsessions of an era, all focusing...  Read More >>

This collection of essays on Dante's lasting legacy comprises two sections: first, some of today's most renowned...  Read More >>

Fanfiction as a genre has exploded in popularity among young adults in the internet age. It also bears resemblance...  Read More >>

Featuring 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott,...  Read More >>

Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American...  Read More >>

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

The final book in Paul Raffield's trilogy of books about Shakespeare and the Law, takes the theme of ‘theatre of...  Read More >>

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

This volume presents 145 letters, unpublished for the most part, written by Voltaire to his niece Marie-Louise Denis,...  Read More >>

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This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern...  Read More >>

Volume II covers the poems of Dryden from 1682 to 1685. Together with volume one, the work forms the first part...  Read More >>

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This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet...  Read More >>

These first two volumes in a four-volume edition of Dryden's poems are the result of a complete reappraisal of the...  Read More >>

Volume Four covers poems published between 1693 and 1696, principally Dryden's translations from Juvenal and Persius,...  Read More >>

Adolph von Knigge's work draws on a real event-Jean-Pierre Blanchard's ascent by balloon in August 1788--and the...  Read More >>

Freed by birth from all forms of prejudice, Imirce is both Candide (innocent) and Ingenu(e) (naive). As she explores...  Read More >>

It is neither ideological nor documentary relevance that make this story unforgettable-this is accomplished rather...  Read More >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying...  Read More >>

Le Chef-d'oeuvre d'un inconnu by Themiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe, first published in 1714, is a parody in which a popular...  Read More >>

What remains of the abundant literary production of the eighteenth-century fable writers? The present anthology...  Read More >>

Successive editors of Condorcet have piously avoided publishing this violently anticlerical text, which seeks to...  Read More >>