Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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

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

Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture explores the new interpretive possibilities offered by...  Read More >>

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This edition brings together all of Sponde's poems known to date (in French as well as in Greek or Latin, in manuscript...  Read More >>

Samuel Pepys and his Books uses Pepys's diary together with his unpublished papers and other contemporary sources...  Read More >>

This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios,...  Read More >>

This edition brings together all of Sponde's poems known to date (in French as well as in Greek or Latin, in manuscript...  Read More >>

In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

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

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A study of the cultural value of literary manuscripts that explores why they are traded, conserved, and coveted....  Read More >>

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Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this...  Read More >>

The life of William Davenant -Shakespeare's godson and potential biological son -reads as entertainingly as his...  Read More >>

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This study reveals how the myth of Diana and Actaeon, as passed down to posterity by Ovid, resonates in the literature...  Read More >>

This book invites us to rediscover introductory poems in praise of the author, an editorial, literary, and social...  Read More >>

This book invites us to rediscover introductory poems in praise of the author, an editorial, literary, and social...  Read More >>

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This book presents a cultural analysis of King James I of England’s evolving perspectives regarding witchcraft and...  Read More >>

This critical edition is the first to present the complete works of James Shirley, one of the most significant dramatic...  Read More >>

More than a simple polemical essay, La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse proposes a system of aesthetic...  Read More >>

This volume gathers the last five tragicomedies of Philippe Quinault, which all were devoted to historical subjects....  Read More >>

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