Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

In this book, readers can explore a wide range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research examining the life,...  Read More >>

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination...  Read More >>

This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common...  Read More >>

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A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during...  Read More >>

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An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work  Read More >>

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British Romanticism and Peace brings perspectives from the field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the...  Read More >>

This book attempts to highlight the fundamental contributions of women to the development of the epistolary art....  Read More >>

The De Sermone of Giovanni Pontano is a work that aims to define the ideal virtues of man in society. Taking up...  Read More >>

Arriving in the French capital in July 1658, Moliere's troupe revived Le Depit amoureux, first staged in Beziers...  Read More >>

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Presents Thomas Traherne's extant works. This volume includes both his published and unpublished works.  Read More >>

The literature of the Middle Ages is marked by novelty. Poets, historians, moralists, and rhetoricians reinvigorated...  Read More >>

The contributions gathered in this book, as well as the study of the reception of Jeanne Flore, attest to the wealth...  Read More >>

Avec son ouvrage 'L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Regime' (1960), Philippe Aries a decouvert l'enfant...  Read More >>

The literature of the Middle Ages is marked by novelty. Poets, historians, moralists, and rhetoricians reinvigorated...  Read More >>

The contributions gathered in this book, as well as the study of the reception of Jeanne Flore, attest to the wealth...  Read More >>

This work explores the art and the rich modalities of the prologue. The author endeavors to show that this genre,...  Read More >>

The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator...  Read More >>

This book studies early modern Spanish broadsheets, tabloid newspapers of the day which educated, entertained, and...  Read More >>

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This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare’s relationship with Rome’s authoritative myth, archaeologically,...  Read More >>