Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Pina Palmas Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature is an innovative look at the ...

Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cul...

The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of...

The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are wi...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709...

This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the power struggles of Restora...

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

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered begins with the brute fact that poetry jostled up alongside novels in the bookstal...

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understan...

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartograph...

Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the ...

The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one ...

Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of rac...

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the plays reception both in the theatre and among artists a...

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writi...

Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeares artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macb...

During the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Engl...

Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, Engli...

The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight ...

Two appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his term paper on Push...

English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifeste...

This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household manage...

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fictio...