Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A v...

As a literary genre, the sentimental novel reached the height of its vogue in the 1770s and 1780s and was still popular as the eighteenth century d...

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, def...

For most of the 1590s, the Admiral's Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare's company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old pla...

John, Lord Hervey (16961743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a political pamphleteer ...

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the...

What a strange invention marriage is! wrote Kierkegaard. Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affin...

In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing duri...

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, England grew from a marginal to a major European power, established overseas settlements, and...

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalle...

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of E...

Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she bec...

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of J...

It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can, Samuel Johnson declared, ac...

Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of ...

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English. Witty and wise anecdotes h...

Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) is an epic romance teeming with dragons, fantastic animals, giants, grotesque human-animal composite...

Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and po...

'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi...

English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retros...