Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in...

Author: Laurie Ellinghausen
ISBN: 9781487529475
Format: Hardback
$134.55

Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years...  Read More >>

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France

Author: Thomas Wynn (Professor of French, Professor of French, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198895329
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Thomas Wynn explores how plays were read in eighteenth-century France and, relatedly, the mode of closet drama:...  Read More >>

La Petite Musique Du Style: Proust Et Ses Sources Litteraires

La Petite Musique Du Style: Proust Et Ses Sources Litteraires...

Author: Luc Fraisse
ISBN: 9782406164661
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Studying Marcel Proust's sources and his relationship to his reading materials makes it possible to cut to the heart...  Read More >>

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Author: Robert D. Hume (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781009270519
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby...  Read More >>

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 1 (1716-1992)

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 1...

Author: David Clare ,  Fiona McDonagh
ISBN: 9781802073720
Format: Paperback
$86.68

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The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes 1 & 2

The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes...

Author: David Clare ,  Fiona McDonagh
ISBN: 9781802073713
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection...  Read More >>

Mary Hays (1759?1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind

Mary Hays (1759?1843): The Growth of a Woman's Mind...

Author: Gina Luria Walker
ISBN: 9780367893026
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race

Author: Patricia Akhimie (Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Director, RaceB4Race Mentorship Network)
ISBN: 9780192843050
Format: Hardback
$307.00

Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author: Liz Oakley-Brown
ISBN: 9780367345860
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns

Author: Gerard Carruthers (Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780198846246
Format: Hardback
$307.00

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns explores the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to...

Author: Dr Susanna de Beer (Director of Ancient Studies and Classical Receptions at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Senior Lecturer in (Renaissance) Latin Literature at Leiden University)
ISBN: 9780198878902
Format: Hardback
$178.95

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author: Liz Oakley-Brown
ISBN: 9780367345914
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons and the Language of Criticism

The Art of Discrimination: Thomson's The Seasons and...

Author: Ralph Cohen
ISBN: 9781032169460
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Literature and Science

Literature and Science

Author: B. Ifor Evans
ISBN: 9781032169132
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature...  Read More >>

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

Author: Joanne Ella Parsons (Falmouth University, UK) ,  Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032227566
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. It will be of interest to academics,...  Read More >>

Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature: Metamorphoses and a Literary Arts Praxis

Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature:...

Author: Suzanne LaLonde
ISBN: 9781032257099
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the...

Author: José Juan Villagrana
ISBN: 9781032268033
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Law

Shakespeare's Law

Author: Mark Fortier
ISBN: 9781032253190
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700–1860

Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700–1860...

Author: Timothy Alborn
ISBN: 9780367524647
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression

Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression

Author: Kathryn Ready ,  David Sigler
ISBN: 9781399507622
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

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