Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present. Enlightened War investigates...

First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction. Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigor...

New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the ...

Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistr...

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by th...

New examinations of the figure of Charlemagne in Spanish literature and culture. The historical point of departure for this volume is Charlemagne'...

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the Internationa...

Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre...

Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama a...

The years 1660 to 1714 represent a fraught transitional period, one caught between two now dominant periodization rubrics: early modern and the lon...

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

In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art history in the modern era - from a...

This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the ...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extend...

This revised edition preserves the play text as it was edited by Marvin Spevack for the 1988 first edition. Jeremy Lopez's new introduction provide...

Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic langu...

Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movem...

Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enrich...

In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested...

Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteen...

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to es...