Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

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Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed Tears

Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity: Sinon’s Borrowed...

Author: Shawn Smith
ISBN: 9780367696412
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action...  Read More >>

Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting Contested Thresholds

Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting...

Author: Kaye McLelland
ISBN: 9780367620882
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines...  Read More >>

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the...

Author: Charles Reeve
ISBN: 9781032365978
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto...  Read More >>

Dante Alive: Essays on a Cultural Icon

Dante Alive: Essays on a Cultural Icon

Author: Francesco Ciabattoni ,  Simone Marchesi
ISBN: 9781032346083
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Dante Alive documents the pervasive presence of Dante’s imaginary universe in popular culture today. These essays...  Read More >>

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

Author: Brian Russell Graham
ISBN: 9781032379197
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England: Sir Robert Sidney and His Contemporaries

Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern...

Author: Erika D'Souza
ISBN: 9781032365688
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description

Author: Brett Bourbon
ISBN: 9781032363394
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood,...  Read More >>

The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature: A Self-Constructed Fantasy

The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European...

Author: Elena Anastasaki
ISBN: 9781032314143
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This study in comparative literature contributes to the understanding of the myth of the artist as a European cultural...  Read More >>

Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate

Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and...

Author: Nicholas Hammond ,  Paul Hammond
ISBN: 9789004695139
Format: Hardback
$277.20

In his plays Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who exercise tyranny or are the victims...  Read More >>

Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser

Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary...

Author: R. D. Perry
ISBN: 9781512826029
Format: Hardback
$184.67

"In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries...  Read More >>

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century:...

Author: Chantel Lavoie
ISBN: 9781644533192
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Writing through Boyhood explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived...  Read More >>

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533406
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533444
Format: Paperback
$158.27

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Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485314
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century:...

Author: Chantel Lavoie
ISBN: 9781644533208
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Writing through Boyhood explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived...  Read More >>

The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth...

Author: Theresa Brock
ISBN: 9781644533277
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533413
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits...

Author: Javier Patiño Loira
ISBN: 9781644533451
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every Place

Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment:...

Author: Kevin L. Cope ,  Samara Anne Cahill
ISBN: 9781611463293
Format: Hardback
$219.00

This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British--and international--Enlightenment....  Read More >>

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751

Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in...

Author: Dayne C. Riley
ISBN: 9781684485321
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Consuming Anxieties examines the varied representations of alcohol and tobacco products in literary satire from...  Read More >>

William Blake

William Blake

Author: John Beer
ISBN: 9780853835684
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Steve Vine's study introduces the full range of William Blake's poetry and illuminated books from the early Songs...  Read More >>

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Author: Philip Henderson
ISBN: 9780582010819
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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