Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Erasmus von Rotterdam zählt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern seiner Zeit und prägte wie kaum ein anderer das geistige Klima der Renaissance.

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.

Anhand unterschiedlicher Fallbeispiele zeigen die Beiträge dieses Bandes, dass Werke der Literatur und Musik in konkreten lebensweltlichen oder diskursiven Kontexten verortet werden, die durchaus zielbewusst der Standortbestimmung von Autor und Werk dienen.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world.

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences.

Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the Protestant theologian.

This is the first biography of Thomas Harris.

Das Ambraser Heldenbuch wurde am Beginn des 16.

Eine Geschichte der literarischen Entdeckung der Zeit als einer eigenständigen, zugleich abstrakten und lebensbestimmenden Größe.

Dante Alighieris Gottliche Komodie ist weit mehr als ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur - es ist ein zeitloser Spiegel der menschlichen Natur.

Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness.

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on Shakespeare, reading practices, and the visual arts.

The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the 'metaphysical' poets of the seventeenth century.

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.

This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.

Geoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration.

The Narrative Grotesque examines late medieval narratology in two Older Scots poems: Gavin Douglas's The Palyce of Honour (c.

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This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions.

This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements.

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin.

Examines humility as a key to the Comedy''s poetry, demonstrating its theological vibrancy for today''s readers.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer''s medieval manuscripts in the early modern period.