Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring tha...

Theories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual p...

Thomas Wyatt didn't publish They Flee from Me. It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthol...

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to th...

Aldus Manutius (c. 14511515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for mor...

Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in te...

Seventeenth-century England teemed with speculation on body and its relation to soul. Descartes' dualist certainty was countered by materialisms, w...

This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues t...

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to ...

What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterprete...

Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Leve...

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war,...

This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This...

The Ladys Trial, Ford's last play, encapsulates the final development of his own unique theatrical aesthetic whilst looking back to the drama of h...

In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Miltons imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are not available for purchase. Pero López de Ayalas Chronicle of King Pedro provides a compelli...

A study of the somewhat parsimonious but intentional use of multiple sonnets in Calderon''s drama.

Insdorf challenges the notion of Montaigne as an anti-feminist by exploring both the feminist and anti-feminist concepts apparent in Montaigne''s w...

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literar...

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle''s (1657-1757) Dialogues were written when he was only twenty-five and published in full in 1683. Donald Schier pro...

Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and functi...

Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family,...

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridges part in Shakespeare appreciation through the c...

Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of womens reading in the period 17891820. From the turbulent years following the Frenc...

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dra...

The 'graphosphere' is the dynamic space of visible words. Graphospheres mutate, they are reconfigured with changes in technology, in modes of produ...

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to e...

Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of...

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of ...

Thomas More is a complex and controversial figure who has been regarded as both saint and persecutor, leading humanist and a representative of late...

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality ...

In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across Englands long sixteenth ...