Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late s...

A vogue for travel stunts flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland tr...

Marguerite de Navarres Heptaméron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. D...

Gallus Reborn is the first comprehensive study of the publication history and reception of the works that have been attributed to Gaius Cornelius G...

Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It i...

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Prev...

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, b...

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics ...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged...

This volume examines the literary works of English exiles seeking to navigate what Edward Said calls the perilous territory of not-belonging. The s...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiate...

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, r...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17...

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the frag...

Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague ...

Myra E. Wright takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in E...

Shepard argues that the Marlowe plays wrestle with the philosophical assumptions about the nature of war and the role and status of soldiers in Eng...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary ...

The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in earl...

The current surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised ho...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

Published in 1967: This book is a historical account of comedy during the Restoration period in England. It discusses Comedy from Jonson to Shirley...

Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was described as an unrestr...

His contemporaries recognised John Donne (1572-1631) as a completely new kind of poet. He was, wrote one enthusiast, Copernicus in Poetrie. But in ...

Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of findin...

Currently in its seventeenth year and formerly published by Ashgate, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespe...

The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a ...

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

What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern lov...

First published in 1987, this 23rd volume in the Renaissance Imagination series had the objective of establishing the text of William Davenants The...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...