Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Explores how seventeenth-century French theatre represents queer desire. In this first queer theoretical treatment...  Read More >>

How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor...  Read More >>

Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our “post-truth” era of virtual reality. Classic Christian...  Read More >>

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on British Romantic literature and art, Blank Splendour opens up a new phase in contemporary posthuman studies....  Read More >>

""Analyzes prison letters from early modern England to explore the enduring features of this literary form within...  Read More >>

Taking the form of a correspondence between husband and wife, extended to several members of their close circle,...  Read More >>

In the eighteenth century, the literary stroll became a form of writing, appealing to both famous and lesser-known...  Read More >>

In the eighteenth century, the literary stroll became a form of writing, appealing to both famous and lesser-known...  Read More >>

Taking the form of a correspondence between husband and wife, extended to several members of their close circle,...  Read More >>

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning...  Read More >>

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

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

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This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later...  Read More >>

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623...  Read More >>

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western...  Read More >>

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623...  Read More >>

A Happier Eden maps the largely unexplored terrain of the Stuart epithalamium, or wedding poem, focusing in particular...  Read More >>

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This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics ‘literature’...  Read More >>