Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

15939 books were found.

Rhetorique de la Requete ((Xvie-Xviie Siecles)

Rhetorique de la Requete ((Xvie-Xviie Siecles)

Author: Ellen Delvallee ,  Cecile Lignereux
ISBN: 9782406158431
Format: Hardback
$240.24

The book studies how the rhetorical protocols of the request, defined and illustrated by rhetorical treatises and...  Read More >>

Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900

Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading...

Author: Niall Ó Ciosáin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
ISBN: 9780367313456
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton...  Read More >>

Spectres de Dostoievski

Spectres de Dostoievski

Author: Nicolas Aude ,  Karen Haddad
ISBN: 9782406158134
Format: Hardback
$240.24

From the specters in his books to the traces he left in world literature, this work looks at Dostoevsky's ghostly...  Read More >>

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism...

Author: David A. Harper
ISBN: 9781032232409
Format: Hardback
$284.00

It identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political...  Read More >>

The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China

The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy...

Author: Su Shi ,  Lu Cai
ISBN: 9780197585603
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China

An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial...

Author: Beata Grant (Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies, Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University, St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780197586310
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature,...  Read More >>

Coleridge's Political Poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802

Coleridge's Political Poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse...

Author: Jacob Lloyd
ISBN: 9783031418761
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth...  Read More >>

A History of Polish Literature

A History of Polish Literature

Author: Anna Nasilowska ,  Anna Zaranko
ISBN: 9798887192772
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry...  Read More >>

Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment

Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment...

Author: James Noggle
ISBN: 9781501770128
Format: Paperback
$76.43

"""Offers a new account of feeling in British Enlightenment literature, showing how writers discreetly evoke a hidden...  Read More >>

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Author: Linda Zionkowski ,  Miriam F. Hart
ISBN: 9781684485154
Format: Paperback
$103.99

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Montaigne's 'Essais'

Montaigne's 'Essais'

Author: Dorothy Gabe Coleman
ISBN: 9781032303277
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong

The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs...

Author: Pu Songling ,  Wilt L. Idema (Professor of Chinese Literature, Emeritus, Professor of Chinese Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780197606308
Format: Hardback
$66.95

A novelistic version of a love affair between a notorious emperor and an innocent courtesan, The Emperor of China...  Read More >>

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Author: Linda Zionkowski ,  Miriam F. Hart
ISBN: 9781684485161
Format: Hardback
$328.99

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition,...  Read More >>

Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740

Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish...

Author: Dr Alejandro Coroleu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
ISBN: 9781350214897
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe

Author: Nicholas Seager (Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities, Keele University) ,  J. A. Downie (Emeritus Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198827177
Format: Hardback
$307.00

Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Daniel Defoe commented on virtually every...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Victoria Bladen (University of Queensland) ,  Sarah Hatchuel (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
ISBN: 9781009200950
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media...  Read More >>

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704 1894

The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing,...

Author: Louis Kirk McAuley
ISBN: 9781399527149
Format: Hardback
$232.88

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Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others

Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with...

Author: Melvyn New
ISBN: 9780813069838
Format: Hardback
$224.40

In this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne...  Read More >>

Localizing Christopher Marlowe: His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575-1593

Localizing Christopher Marlowe: His Life, Plays and...

Author: Professor Arata Ide
ISBN: 9781843846932
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This study punctures stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, and in doing so reveals the social and cultural discourses...  Read More >>

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition:...

Author: Aleida Auld
ISBN: 9781032344546
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative...  Read More >>

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche Vorbild in der rumaenischen Kultur

The German Model in Romanian Culture / Das deutsche...

Author: Maria Sass ,  Ovio Olaru
ISBN: 9783631910313
Format: Hardback
$129.38

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