Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This is a collection of essays by major international literary and cultural critics on the Shakespeare authorship question and controversy. The Sha...

This is a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakes...

Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that le...

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study,...

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was ...

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes th...

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes th...

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expectin...

This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across E...

In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of spiritual conquest in order to demonstrate...

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

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while ot...

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to a...

New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity. Modernity, accordin...

New translations of Schiller's literary prose works, accompanied by fresh critical essays. Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the age...

New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The ...

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led b...

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

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the f...

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Mi...

Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies)The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of re...

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficia...

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon cultur...

Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tr...

Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tr...

During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of long eighteenth-century stu...

Insults, scorn, and verbal abusefrequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulterare destined to fail when that language is appropr...

During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of long eighteenth-century stu...

This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century Englis...

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminat...

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminat...

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelicks The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between...