Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity.

This book provides an expansive view of celebrity's intimate dimensions.

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850.

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy.

Emily Dickinson (1830-86) recasts British-Romantic themes of natural and spiritual perception for an American audience.

This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state.

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century.

Gothic Romanticism, winner of the 2010 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, is a study of the relationship between British Romanticism and the Gothic Revival.

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.

Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage is a study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political.

Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence.

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition.

This Companion, designed as an authoritative biographical and critical guide to Burns, is in six sections.

Aus dem Inhalt: Mitteilungen über die laufende Editionsarbeit - Gerhard Sauder: "Komet" (en)-Autorschaft - Sabine Eickenrodt: Sinesische Sprachgitter.

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.

This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius.

This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century.

The first in-depth examination of the texts produced in English Benedictine convents between 1600 and 1800 After Catholicism became illegal in England during the sixteenth century, Englishwomen established more than twenty convents on the Continent that attracted thousands of nuns and served as vital centers of Catholic piety until the French Revolution.

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations.

This volume studies concrete examples of how female monastic spirituality acquires allegorical-symbolic connotations when representing itself, the world or life in the monasteries of the Hispanic area.

This book explores the contradictions of biography.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises.