Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice...  Read More >>

During the sixteenth-century reform movement, Zwingli and his humanist colleagues in Zurich sought biblical, historical,...  Read More >>

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive...  Read More >>

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date...  Read More >>

In this first full-length biography of Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Hannay's reliance on primary sources results in...  Read More >>

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African...  Read More >>

The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment for the fair-sex was published in 1694 and offers around 1950...  Read More >>

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and...  Read More >>

Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of...  Read More >>

There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively...  Read More >>

In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its...  Read More >>

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines...  Read More >>

In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired...  Read More >>

For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted...  Read More >>

Using the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as the key to thematic continuity, this book reads Pearl, Cleanness,...  Read More >>

Rooted in the inconceivable and unspeakable event of death, Romantic poetic forms of grief possess a self-questioning...  Read More >>

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane...  Read More >>

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

Of interest to scholars in translation studies, gender and sexuality, and comparative literary and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, this...  Read More >>

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino....  Read More >>

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume...  Read More >>

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets,...  Read More >>