Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, K...

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous numbe...

Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in ...

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe...

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an i...

Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to...

Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clockthe notion of time as ruled by mechani...

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intel...

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve Britain's literary genius. Its intel...

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. T...

In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Miltons self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works o...

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on Goethe and visual cu...

In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay...

Muñoz Pérez revela la importancia de las mujeres en la política y cultura de la corte española en tiempos de Olivares. Muñoz Pérez examines the...

I, Hernán Cortés: The (Second) Trial of Residency is a literary analysis of the most important documents in the Hernán Cortés trial of residency (j...

A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the socia...

The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de est...

An examination of Wyatt's translations and adaptions of European poetry yields fresh insights into his work and poetic practice. During the 1520s ...

New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices. The Goethe...

Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises. Arguing against historians of Span...

A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced ...

Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television examines recent film and television transformations of William Shakespeares drama by focusing on the...