Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or il...

An analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develo...

Jenkins challenges the notion that Lemaire''s recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. He demo...

Alice Fiola Berry''s study on the fundamental importance of language itself in the four books of Rabelais leads the reader down the path trod by Pa...

Conchita Herdman Marianella''s book develops the words Duena and Doncella in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this ch...

In this book, Richard A. Carr elucidates Boaistuau''s quest for a ''nouvelle form'' in his loose adaptation of Bandello''s Novelle. Emphasizing psy...

Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetryTheatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of ...

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), t...

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This brief bo...

This book is a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the impact of his writings. Je...

Ruth el Saffar''s study of novelistic technique in Don Quixote focuses on the interplay of characters, authors, and readers who populate the work.

In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth ...

Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of t...

Since the publication of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman in 1978, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne has estab...

Which John Dryden should be brought into the twentyfirst-century college classroom? The rehabilitator of the ancients? the first of the moderns? th...

Noam Reisner leads readers through the complexities of Milton's celebrated and challenging narrative poem as well as introducing them to the key cr...

Shakespeare and the Bible are titans of English-speaking culture: their images are endlessly cited and recycled, and their language permeates every...

In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of th...

As suggested by the title Early Modern Communi(cati)ons, the volume demonstrates that the connections and common points of reference within early m...

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in t...

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocab...

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference of the Tudor Symposium, held at the University of Sheffield in 200...

The period known as the long nineteenth century, stretching between the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution and World War I, was one of rad...