Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnagethe duel between Hamlet and L...

This volume is one of scarce studies of religious literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth conducted by scholars from both Poland and Lithu...

This collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editio...

Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Sinneswahrnehmung und Exotismus in der deutschsprachigen, französischen und britischen Literatur v...

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of p...

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that cl...

Die Theorie des wilden Übersetzens, die dieses Buch entwickelt, beschreibt Verfahren des Übersetzens, die als generativer Mechanismus zur Produktio...

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, an...

Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a s...

What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowaday...

Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic commun...

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theologi...

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theologi...

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep ...

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a ...

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England an...

Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the ...

What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...

In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Science does not know its debt to imagination, words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health ca...

Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that h...

What does the keyword continence in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contem...

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cu...

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be ...