Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto...  Read More >>

Dante Alive documents the pervasive presence of Dante’s imaginary universe in popular culture today. These essays...  Read More >>

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood,...  Read More >>

This study in comparative literature contributes to the understanding of the myth of the artist as a European cultural...  Read More >>

This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century...  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 >>

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual...  Read More >>

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""This work presents the first emotional history of the United States, analyzing the writings left behind by Americans...  Read More >>

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This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of...  Read More >>

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features...  Read More >>

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of...  Read More >>

Examines the life and work of writer and political activist Georg Forster (1754-1794), a participant in Captain...  Read More >>

This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), including...  Read More >>

A collection of previously published essays.  Read More >>