Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not...

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Val...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. ...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteuxs The Gentlemans Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals runn...

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sternes life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the successful publication of th...

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sternes life which emphasizes those experiences which informed Sternes fiction. The book i...

Der Band 43 der Schiller Nationalausgabe bringt Korrekturen und Ergänzungen, darunter viele Briefe sowie Schillers Fieberschrift (seine erste Disse...

Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among ma...

An annotated edition of Leon Modenas Hebrew Musar book Tsema Tsaddik (Pious Plant), originally published in Venice in 1600. Tsema Tsaddik follows t...

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spensers long and shorter poems for crea...

Aesthetic acts and artifacts are conditioned just as much by their materials as by the medial processes in which they are embedded. This interdisc...

In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a descr...

Die rasch zum Standardwerk avancierte Sammlung Von Strittigkeit der Bilder. Texte des deutschen Bildstreits zum 16. Jahrhundert wird nun um einen d...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary criticism from ...