Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, r...

Composed on the occasion of the poet's near-fatal bout with typhus in 1623, the Devotions contains the essential germ of John Donne's mature though...

Taking their cue from T. S. Eliot, most previous studies of Donne's poetry have concentrated on an analysis of the peculiar power of his imagery an...

Complete scholarly edition of Etherege's poems, with verification of authorship, explanatory comments, records of early appearances, and textual an...

In eight closely interwoven essays, the author explores the techniques and themes which themes masters had in common. Originally published in 1950...

Le Lévite dEphraïm, Rousseaus re-imagining of the final chapters of the Book of Judges, contains major themes of Rousseaus oeuvre and lays forth ce...

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cerva...

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining hum...

This collection of essays addresses a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmanns most significant works, examining them through the lens of transgressi...

Samuel Richardson was one of the great letter-writers in English. His three great novels, Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison were written ...

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (13041374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establis...

Although it has been recognized that Edmund Spenser's poetry owes a debt to the work of the French poets of the Pleiade, particularly to Joachim du...

The nature of Renaissance allegory has been the subject of much investigation, notably by Spenserian scholars. The subject is now enlarged through ...

By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

The author rejects C.S. Lewis's theory of a Drab and a Golden school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradit...

Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literatur...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical the...

The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and ...