Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

15844 books were found.

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century...

Author: Yasmin Solomonescu (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame) ,  Stefan H. Uhlig (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780192863737
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards...  Read More >>

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama: Plotting Revenge

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama: Plotting Revenge...

Author: Linc Kesler
ISBN: 9781032721934
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions...  Read More >>

Ein Jrdisch Paradeiß: Die Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz und ihre Zeit

Ein Jrdisch Paradeiß: Die Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz...

Author: Prof. Dr. Klaus Birnstiel ,  Prof. Dr. Christfried Böttrich
ISBN: 9783847116912
Format: Hardback
$168.96

Das poetische Paradies im Werk der frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz im zeitgenössischen Kontext  Read More >>

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della...

Author: Giordano Bruno ,  Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9781487552008
Format: Hardback
$225.11

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their...  Read More >>

Thierry and Theodoret: John Fletcher, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field

Thierry and Theodoret: John Fletcher, Philip Massinger...

Author: Domenico Lovascio
ISBN: 9781526164209
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Lecoq: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

Shakespeare and Lecoq: A Practical Guide for Actors,...

Author: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall (The Shakespeare Institute, UK) ,  Ed Woodall
ISBN: 9781350244085
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187535
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literature

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication...

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9781039187542
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Proper Words in Proper Places: Dialectical Explication and English Literary History explores how literary history...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Author: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781421448206
Format: Hardback
$60.99

"""This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen...  Read More >>

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Author: Michael M. Wagoner (United States Naval Academy, USA) ,  Professor Douglas Bruster
ISBN: 9781350238343
Format: Paperback
$59.99

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain...

Author: Mark C. Chambers (Department of English Studies at Durham University)
ISBN: 9781802700091
Format: Hardback
$292.39

Examines the nature and socialization of disabled performers in the medieval and early Tudor periods.  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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In Fielding′s Wake

In Fielding′s Wake

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781587314285
Format: Paperback
$36.95

"In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve...  Read More >>

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Guides Not Commanders

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies...

Author: Tom Harrison
ISBN: 9780367498375
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on...  Read More >>

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century...

Author: Clinton Bennett
ISBN: 9781032383217
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

Author: Iman Al-Attar
ISBN: 9781032188119
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Selected Essays on George Gascoigne

Selected Essays on George Gascoigne

Author: Gillian Austen
ISBN: 9780367630904
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Foreignness and Selfhood: Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Foreignness and Selfhood: Sino-British Encounters in...

Author: Mengmeng Yan
ISBN: 9781032248035
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807: Self in Landscape

Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807: Self...

Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
ISBN: 9781032331713
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book discusses the intrusion of personal voice in British landscape poetry of the eighteenth century. It argues...  Read More >>

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