Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to pr...

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concernsboth practical and theoreticalrelated to the study of print culture. Procedural...

Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is mea...

Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Felicite de Genlis, Christian...

Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave you ever wondered what was re...

Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama...

Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed illuminist, and better-k...

Comment sest créé le concept psychologique et esthétique du sentiment tel quon le connaît dans la littérature du dix-huitième siècle? Tracer la tra...

Cultural transfers between eighteenth-century France and Britain did much to shape the intellectual identity of each nation. But what were the main...

Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'. In what ways have colonial and po...

Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identity The British historical novel has often been ...

In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worl...

Women seem to be destined solely for our pleasure. When they no longer have that attraction, they have lost everything (letter from Diderot to Soph...

British Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a 'Northern' cultural identity share...

In December 1840, Charlotte Bronte wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all [her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to...

With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new develo...

Liu Yuans Lingyan ge, a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu a...

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships...

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (17241803) war in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts die zentrale Figur der deutschen Poesie. Er revolutionierte Theorie u...

'Tis Pity She's a Whore is one of the most controversial plays ever staged in the English theatre. In this illuminating Handbook, Martin White: - O...

A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power Shakespeares ...