Literary Studies: c 1500 to c 1800

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...

What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come ...

While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attenti...

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

Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnati...

The author of Comentarios reales and La Florida del Inca, now recognized as key foundational works of Latin American literature and historiography,...

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a ...

This book investigates the languages of Renaissance Europe on seven keywords, such as allegory, discretion, disegno, grace, modern, scandal, and se...

Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsexd Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a his...

Essays in English by French, Irish and German academics, which explore the relevance and interest of the tragic theatre today of the French dramati...

This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of...

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as...

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon autho...

Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. T...

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 P...

If material bodies have inherent, animating powersor virtues, in the premodern sensethen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

From the distinguished literary scholar Gordon Teskey comes an essay collection that restores Spenser to his rightful prominence in Renaissance stu...

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jaco...

This title examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage. The significance of turning healthy players into bloodied bodies, whit...

Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with...

Quelle place occupe le droit dans lEncyclopédie de Diderot et de DAlembert? Quels rapports le mouvement encyclopédique et lesprit de la Déclaration...

The early eighteenth century was a vibrant period for European journalism. Already the author of several journals including the first spectator in ...

Mme dArconville échappe à tout classement: femme de lettres auteure dessais, de romans, de textes autobiographiques , elle est aussi une chimiste ...