Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to pol...

The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner...

First comprehensive examination of the ways in which printers, publishers and booksellers adapted and rewrote Arthurian romance in early modern Fra...

Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camões's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of spiritual or allegorical scriptural ...

The kissing-poem genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. There is a great deal of kissing in ...

First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now...

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. In her analysis of the verse of r...

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for t...

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural...

For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, howeve...

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and w...

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-Europ...

Investigates how culture in the Age of Goethe shaped and was shaped by a sustained and multifaceted debate about the place of religion in politics,...

Renaissance dialogues from C16th Catalonia, in which three speakers elegantly discuss politics, society and the Church. Dialogue is one of the Cla...

This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and...

By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuv...

New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication o...

This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explor...

Zayas's prose through a gynocentric lens. María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and D...

Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline between the periods com...

Domus estudia la representación de la casa nobiliaria urbana en la narrativa corta y el teatro del siglo XVII en España. Analiza aspectos materiale...

La edición que aquí se presenta se basa en el estudio cuidadoso de los dos únicos ejemplares que quedan del impreso de 1514. Va acompañada de una i...

Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nie...

A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence. From the late-medieval period thro...