Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn Kate Williams, historian and author of Ri...

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from cl...

Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita...

This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of...

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which r...

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner ...

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category...

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category...

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how b...

At its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughal Empire was one of the largest empires in Eurasia, with territory extending ove...

Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramat...

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category...

It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can, Samuel Johnson declared, ac...

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of J...

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping re...

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping re...

The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined thro...

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poem...

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and ...

The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor ...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...