Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Violence was an inescapable part of peoples daily lives in eighteenth-century France. The Revolution in general and the Terror in particular were m...

For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of le...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbrea...

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of presence in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century. In the years following t...

Robert McKelvey argues that John Bunyan wrote The Holy War as a warfare allegory symbolizing the salvation history of Scripture from a Calvinistic-...

When Shakespearean characters kiss, embrace, or shake hands, what does it mean? Are dramatic characters following established rules of conduct, or ...

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation t...

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jaco...

This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics literature and science at a formative point...

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and ...

Old women in Early Modern plays are stereotypically presented as ugly, randy, mouthy, mad.  So Shakespeare is rare among dramatists of the day for ...

The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarres status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as ...

John Fletcher and Philip Massingers comedy Loves Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle ...

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...

Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader str...

Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney argues that the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the g...

Samuel Johnsons life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendshipsand antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collec...