Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant 'native' literary culture until the postcolonial period.

Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century before Moliere's famous comedy, L'Avare?

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects.

This book presents a longitudinal study of cultural influence on psychiatric disorders, from late imperial China to contemporary China, drawing on both reviews and lab results to do so.

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl.

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.

This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture.

Building on recent work on Victorian print culture and the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, this collection extends the frontiers of scholarship on the 'Atlantic scene' of publishing, exploring new ways of grappling with the rapidly changing universe of print at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book is about the ways that Gothic literature has been transformed since the 18th century across cultures and across genres.

How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them.

To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror.

In this book, Catharina Loffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature.

Der Briefwechsel mit Carl Friedrich Zelter stellt in seiner Ausdehnung über drei Jahrzehnte und der Vielzahl vertraulich behandelter Themen eine der wichtigsten Korrespodenzen Goethes dar.

This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure.

Die Beiträge dieses Jahrbuchs befassen sich vor allem mit der Herder-Kant-Konstellation im Kontext mit Herders Geschichtsphilosophie, seiner Beschäftigung mit Begriff und Problem der Nation und mit Herders Stellung im erkenntnistheoretisch-ethischen Spektrum der Zeit.

British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.

A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own.

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century.

This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Blake's 'Human Form Divine' has long commanded the spotlight.

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.

Before William Shakespeare wrote world-famous plays on the themes of power and political turmoil, the Shakespeare family of Stratford-upon-Avon and their neighbors and friends were plagued by false accusations and feuds with the government - conflicts that shaped Shakespeare's sceptical understanding of the realities of power.

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today.

Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged.

Shakespeare's Late Work is a detailed reading of the plays written at the end of Shakespeare's career, centring on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.

This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.