Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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This volume provides a meticulous analysis of the development of early African American literature from an African...  Read More >>

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Explores the idea of progress in British Romantic literature by analyzing converging arguments among political theorists,...  Read More >>

""This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. It explores the literary and cultural...  Read More >>

The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries...  Read More >>

Published between 1595 and 1699, the texts collected in this book are representative of the positions adopted by...  Read More >>

With the character Didon, Etienne Jodelle shows the fall of a tragic heroine and puts a fashionable subject on the...  Read More >>

Actor-author, Raymond Poisson wrote nine comedies for the Hotel de Bourgogne in the 1660s-1670s. Comic devices inherited...  Read More >>

Actor-author, Raymond Poisson wrote nine comedies for the Hotel de Bourgogne in the 1660s-1670s. Comic devices inherited...  Read More >>

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Scholarly Milton is a collection of essays concerned with the function of scholarship in both the invention and...  Read More >>

A panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century France, drawing...  Read More >>

Presents a new theory of textual endings in eighteenth-century literature and thought. Analysing works by Gotthold...  Read More >>

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This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer - female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering...  Read More >>

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"""This collection of essays brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions...  Read More >>

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the...  Read More >>

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in...  Read More >>

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events...  Read More >>

Published between 1595 and 1699, the texts collected in this book are representative of the positions adopted by...  Read More >>

With the character Didon, Etienne Jodelle shows the fall of a tragic heroine and puts a fashionable subject on the...  Read More >>