Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements-the emergence of the novel and t...

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir - a model of the genre - in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places....

In diesem interdisziplinären Sammelband wird nicht nur eine Motivgeschichte des Themas Wasser vorgelegt. Vielmehr eint die Beiträge der Ansatz, Was...

Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean ...

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

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeares work with the human, his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part...

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians,...

Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that ...

Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that ...

Relations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformation during the roughly one hundred-year period encompassing the...

In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, mirac...

This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abu...

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeths reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or fore...

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations o...

Building on the strength of Keith Walkers acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a ...

The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young ...

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, includ...

With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of womens devotional translations and of religious translations in g...

Disknowledge: knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance E...

What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question throug...

Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, surprise in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word h...

Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original...

First published in 1653, The Compleat Angler is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiou...