Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with d...

The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination o...

Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were s...

The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and ...

This volume contains the three works which together make up Jonathan Swift's early satiric and intellectual masterpiece, A Tale of a Tub: the Tale ...

Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most influential novel published in Britain in the eighteenth century. On its first publication in 1740,...

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive hist...

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Mariner...

Samuel Richardson (16891761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordina...

Samuel Richardson (16891761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge...

From 1815 to 1823 the Italian influence on English literature was at its zenith. While English tourists flocked to Italy, a pervasive Italianism co...

Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judic...

The Tudors are one of the best known royal families in English history. Over three generations, they constructed and maintained their status and au...

Modern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia in its complete old version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version...

In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English ...

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

A queen who helped define the cultural landscape of her era. As duchess of Brittany [1491-1514] and twice queen of France [1491-98; 1498-1514], An...

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manus...

During the Italian Renaissance, laywomen and nuns could take part in every stage of the circulation of texts of many kinds, old and new, learned an...