Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the gra...

This Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General ...

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a mille...

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise frien...

This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition increases our the play was received and understood by critics, editors and general read...

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsb...

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Grays Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduc...

This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18t...

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive ap...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impote...

We no longer ascribe the term mermaid to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaids image in polit...

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation an...

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one anot...

In early modern England, epitomes-texts promising to pare down, abridge, or sum up the essence of their authoritative sources-provided readers with...

The resurgence of marriage as a transnational institution, same-sex or otherwise, draws upon as much as it departs from enlightenment ideologies of...

Using Hannah Arendts account of the Greek polis to explain Miltons fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distincti...

Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortiers bookThe Culture of Equity...