Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften waren eine Sozietätsbewegung, die von den mitteldeutschen und protestantischen Universitäten und Gelehrtenschulen ausg...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...

Can words be danced? Can dance be written down? What inspires choreographers? How do dancers write? This volume delves into questions like these a...

First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. WINNER...

Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern bl...

Der zweisprachige, deutsch-italienische Band geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Rezensionen in Zeitschriften zwischen 1700 und 1850 zu einem Begriff de...

This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libr...

Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch ...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

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

Following the editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and i...

Schätzungsweise 60 000 tödlich endende Hexenprozesse in Europa haben nicht nur in Prozessakten Spuren hinterlassen. Im Bewusstsein der Zeitgenossen...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

Die historische Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch und Gewalt in der Frühen Neuzeit steht noch ganz am Anfang. Auf detaillierten Archivrecherche...

Theatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, theatricality iden...

Unter dem Namen satura gerät hier eine ,monströse, durch wilde Mischförmigkeit und intertextuelle Hypertrophie gekennzeichnete Texttradition in den...

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (15911635) ist einer der bemerkenswertesten Autoren im Umfeld der Literaturreformbemühungen des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Di...

The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Domi...

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of ...