Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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

Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and sel...

Hereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH...

A pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a p...

This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the ...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest researc...

Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent...

Examines the importance of intertextuality, in particular hypertextuality, in the poetics of Castilian romances of chivalry. Runner-up for the 201...

Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. C. S. Lewi...

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What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about progress and perfection? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familia...

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women's contribution to the rise of the novel. Named in i...

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in...

Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue ...

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him...

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him...

This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wro...

Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium , the androygyne during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full potential of human...

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by autho...

Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where ...

Shakespeares adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeares plays. Using early modern medical knowledge an...

The ideological roots of the British Empire have been widely discussed in early modern studies, as have maritime settings in the periods imaginativ...