Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Le terme marivaudage, qui évoque encore aujourdhui un excès de langage et une virtuosité superficielle, limite la portée dun uvre dont lambition ét...

Recovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations abou...

Labbé Lenglet-Dufresnoy a publié de son vivant deux essais consacrés à lesthétique romanesque: De lusage des romans, communément perçu comme un pla...

La presse littéraire joue un rôle considérable dans le développement de la sociabilité et des pratiques culturelles au XVIIIe siècle: elle favorise...

On ne peut penser les Lumières sans lauteur du Contrat social et lEmile, mais on ne saurait cependant nier que Rousseau dénonce les philosophes mod...

New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and pr...

A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the ...

Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues, protections, and enti...

Traces the history of geological travel writing about Scotland across the historical periods of the Scottish Enlightenment and British RomanticismD...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

Argues that Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantlyIconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy sh...

This edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson details how Boswell's original words were changed during the publication process, and offers a fresh read...

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's th...

This edited collection, a tribute to the late noted eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, testifies to her influence as a researcher, writer, tea...

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil. Charney closely considers the way that dramatic...

Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bod...

Eighteenth-Century Womens Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquel...

Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' t...

Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at ...

This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened ...

Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse ...

During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanis...