Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises. Arguing against historians of Span...

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced ...

Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeares drama by focusing on the...

New essays providing a in-depth view of the many facets of the great world poet's work. Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost...

Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance. Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the ...

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essa...

Este volumen de estudios, que contiene artículos escritos por algunos de los más prestigiosos siglodoristas en el ámbito internacional, ofrece un a...

New essays on diverse topics from the Age of Goethe, with a special section on Goethe scholarship's role in the establishment of Germanistik. The ...

Fresh essays on the works of the most significant -- and readable -- German Baroque author. Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (ca. 1621-16...

New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing. One of the most independent thinkers in German intel...

New essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publicatio...

Der vorliegende Band setzt sich mit der didaktischen Implementierung Shakespeares Werk auseinander. Im Fokus stehen dabei die in jüngster Zeit radi...

This volume aims to advance the analysis about Amerigo Vespucci by considering and connecting several fields of study such as literary history, phi...

In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded t...

The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomen...

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his...

How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature   How is a garden like a poem? Early mo...

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation di...

Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and Englan...

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

While Robert Greene was the most prolific and perhaps the most notorious professional writer in Elizabethan England, he continues to be best known ...

David Bevington's volume on George Peele looks at the literary achievement of that dramatist and author, who was born in London some time around 15...

Thomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of f...

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of th...

Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women kno...

The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and ...