Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of ...

For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private wa...

The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the...

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flo...

Alexander Popes heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon ...

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spensers Faerie Queene and Shakespeares plays, showing how both facilitate the ...

Sor Juanas Respuesta a sor Filotea (1691) is one of her most widely read works and an established text in the history of womens writing. Less frequ...

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating ...

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and ...

Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrati...

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows ...

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochesters poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, i...

This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their fa...

This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Foll...

This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, ...

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adapta...

This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting atten...

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British...

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, writt...

Romanticism is taught at universities across the globe and is considered integral to the study of British and European literature. This book, writt...