Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel''s marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely tra...

What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained-and...

From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal p...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hij), the poet...

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly ch...

This year's volume offers many contributions on early modern drama alongside essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in religi...

Cho Dong-Il's History of Korean literature, translated by Charles La Shure, traces the development of Korean literature from its beginnings in pale...

A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighte...

New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical readings of the poet. Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a...

This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. This book explores the threat of Christian con...

The essential guide to the Bard and his work, celebrating 400 years of his legacy.The works of William Shakespeare have been a permanent feature on...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Given the variety and richness of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English 'songscape', it might seem unsurprising to suggest that early mode...

Analyzes the transformation of German-language pastoral from a portrayal of the idyllic lives of herdsmen into a vehicle for the concerns and aspir...

A collection of pedagogical essays that presents proven strategies for the teaching of adaptation and eighteenth-century texts The eighteenth cent...

This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and proceeds from two broad perspectives. First, avo...

In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume repopulates the German Enlightenment...

A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text. New sources for...

New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry. The Maitland Quarto Manuscript was compiled in c.1586 in t...

Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell explores writerly responses to the religious violence of the long reformation in England ...

The Age of Silver advances a horizontal method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early real...

Este libro trata de la atracción de los Siglos de Oro por cierta doble configuración de lo monstruoso. This is a book about the obsession of the...

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case s...

Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1...

This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeares tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thom...