Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Georg Forster (17541794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remember...

From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burn...

The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the fo...

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volumes subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespear...

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino. Part One introduces the author...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field.   This collection of essays focuses on teaching at the ...

As a major source of debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and predestination, the New Te...

Richard Brinsley Sheridans last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebues Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the mos...

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Ysuf al-Shirbns Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-S...

Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close exami...

Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her scandalous early c...

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of l...

'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world....

The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British lit...

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which r...

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orie...

In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeares plays, illuminating a di...

The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide re...

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such c...

This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construct...

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of ga...

Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German St...

The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader's response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demo...