Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Insults, scorn, and verbal abusefrequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulterare destined to fail when that language is appropr...

During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of long eighteenth-century stu...

This volume contains a selection of the major essays written over a period of three decades by a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century Englis...

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminat...

The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminat...

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelicks The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between...

Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations...

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as a most unclubbable man. Conversely, this ...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of ...

The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But...

Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped ...

Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuriesepic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas...

In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing ...

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for Engl...

Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for mo...