Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Benjamin Hoffmanns Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth a...

The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its ...

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period...

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, throu...

In a lecture entitled The First Forty Years: Some Notes on Anglo-Welsh Literature, published in 1957, the novelist and critic Gwyn Jones stated tha...

This book examines the child on Shakespeare's stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy, history, memory or image of love o...

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing ...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. ...

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for t...

The Revengers Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge traged...

Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory...

This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish ...

Literature and theology have long been conversation partners. The great themes of human existence form the subject matter of their shared discussio...

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Miltons Paradise Lost addresses Milton in the light of the digital age, new critical approaches to hi...

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...

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Thomas Heywood (c.1573-1641), who claimed to have had 'an entire hand, or at least a maine finger' in two hundred and twenty plays, was one of the ...

'To err is human'. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of ...

John Clelands Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the gen...

The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryates five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest trav...

Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters' fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in...

The Spanish Tragedy became one of the most successful plays on the Elizabethan English stage and laid the foundation of the revenge tragedy, a genr...

Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, a...

The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (16971743) was a poet...

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet an...

In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington explores some key dilemmas and puzzles in this most famous of Shakespeares tragedies. What...

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...

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

Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of hi...

Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies....

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In thi...