Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic pro...

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion o...

This book presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean and related ideas of moderation in the literature ...

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and...

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a le...

Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (15961687) was a remarkable figure: in addition to writing poetry, he composed music; was secretary to tw...

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet...

The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spensers 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, a...

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eu...

Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understan...

Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries thro...

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of societys darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the dra...

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What ha...

How do communities tell and retell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This boo...

The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its un...

Spain alone produced a Renaissance drama comparable to that of England, yet the two nations were enemies, separated by the worldwide conflict of Ca...

Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods o...

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Sho...

Laurence Sternes A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed mor...

A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fa...

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and unders...

Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American co...

As a literary mode lyric is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the s...