Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern  Selected by New Y...

Printed in Utopia examines the bloody era of the Renaissance in all of its contradictions and moments of utopian possibility. From the dissenting r...

''Hitchings is extremely good at unravelling Johnsons most bullish assertions . . . lucid and empathetic, scholarly but lively. A model Johnsonian,...

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth an...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are...

This book treats Burns work from the first publication of his poetry in 178 to his song writing and collecting which predominated in the 1790s. It ...

A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflect...

In a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an emanation of virtue. ...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns,...

This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the I...

Anthony Munday and civic culture is a full-scale study of a fascinating but hitherto neglected author set in the context of the city where he was b...

It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwells poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspect...

With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker''s Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. Th...

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career w...

This is the first biography of Thomas Harris. Until now, little has been known about his life. He was most visible as the man who controlled Covent...

In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this stud...

Obéissant à la logique dune spécialisation toujours plus grande, les sociétés contemporaines ne tiennent pas lamateur en grande estime. Or, sil est...

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provid...

Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. Against the...

The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, li...

The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy. Praise f...

A sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings. Idola...

In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celeb...

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austens art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era i...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish contex...

Written in the aftermath of the catastrophic sack of Rome in 1527, the historian Paolo Giovios dialogue provides an informed perspective on the eve...

Volume 29 features articles on Anton Reiser; the legacies of German romanticism; Goethe's morphology and computational analysis; Goethe commemorati...

An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of Brit...