Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The poetry of Gavrila Derzhavin is a monument to that which could be read, heard, and, most important, seen in the two centuries in which he lived....

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

Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showc...

The Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural...

Bringing together the discrete fields of appropriation and performance studies, this collection explores pivotal intersections between the two appr...

From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor of Massachusetts. He was regard...

Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seven...

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (17531821), active in Great Britain in the lat...

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (17531821), active in Great Britain in the lat...

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of liter...

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William ...

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The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...