Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

"Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable,...  Read More >>

Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe over the...  Read More >>

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In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could...  Read More >>

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Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

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Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes...  Read More >>

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ‘deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common...  Read More >>

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds...  Read More >>

Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to...  Read More >>

This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation...  Read More >>

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours...  Read More >>

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary...  Read More >>

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary...  Read More >>

This book offers a detailed consideration of the iconic five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin, translated into...  Read More >>

The appearance of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798) and of Wordsworth's preface to the second...  Read More >>

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process....  Read More >>

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis...  Read More >>