Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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

Frisch, modern und progressiv ist noch heute dieses vor über zweihundert Jahren verfaßte Zeitdokument, das bei seinem Erscheinen großes Aufsehen erregte und die einflußreichste Schrift der englischen Frauenrechtsbewegung wurde.

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery.

En las páginas de La cultura de las máscaras Irene Gómez Castellano desvela por vez primera el lado más íntimo y vacilante del "hombre ilustrado", iluminando algunos de sus misterios: ¿Por qué a los que perseguían a los borrachos con leyes y decretos les gustaba deambular poéticamente en fantasías dionisíacas?

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi.

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare.

Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname.

Revolutionary thinking at the end of the Eighteenth century prompted major English writers to probe the riddle of human consciousness and the ways in which it might differ from 'Being' in a divine or universal sense.

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "e;God's cause"e;-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom.

This Palgrave Pivot argues for the significance of allegory in Enlightenment writing.

This book deals with Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture.

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America.

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists.

A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female victims and those writing about them constructed meaning from the ritual.

Der Berliner Kunstwissenschaftler Horst Bredekamp hat in den späten 1970er und in den 1980er Jahren den zentralen Sammlungstyp der frühen Neuzeit, die Kunstkammer, wiederendeckt.

This book explores the impact of Keats on authors and artists from 1821 to the end of the First World War.

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

Los ensayos aquí incluidos involucran variados métodos de exégesis e iluminan disímiles temas que se pueden rastrear en la Segunda Parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615), como la relación amo-sirviente, la continuación apócrifa publicada por Avellaneda a raíz del éxito del texto original cervantino, el teatro, la ciudad de Barcelona, el mundo animal, la medicina política, la paremiología, las virtudes cristianas, la piratería, los títeres, la libertad, la muerte, los estratos ficcionales.

In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation.

Malone, in the eighteenth century, came up with a method for determining Shakespeare''s chronology that was wrong: we have been using it ever since.

Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare.

This comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social, cultural, historical and intellectual contexts.

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The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century.

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies to examine shifting perceptions of nonhuman agency in English prose at the turn of the nineteenth century.

The 'book' - both material and metaphoric - is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by Prospero when he has shaken out his art like music and violence; it is forced by Richard II to withstand the mortality of deposition, fetishised by lovers, tormented by pedagogues, lost by kings, written by the alienated, and hung about war with the blood of lost voices.

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature.

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare.

This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson, Ghislaine McDayter, Tim Morton, David Punter and Pamela Kao, Michael Simpson, Philip Shaw, Nanora Sweet and Susan Wolfson.