Whether spurred by religious images or academic history books, hardly a day goes by in South Asia without an incident or court case occurring as a result of hurt religious feelings.
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.
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritanceoften impeded, disrupted inheritanceto the novel's rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period.
The rise of the novel paradigmand the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genrecontinues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel.
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 Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of ';retirement' turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire.
By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author's era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical periodization and by isolation among academic specialities.
The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood.
The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood.
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia.
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia.
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.
This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages.
A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more.