Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book explores the history of women's engagement with writing experimentally.

This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant.

This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses.

This book argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer.

The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain.

Gefeiert, verkannt, vergessen?

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts.

This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten "e;Fancy"e; of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth.

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "e;The Rule of Law"e; and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution.

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

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 FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** Lively and humane Reade s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning GUARDIANSummoned in Haiti s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary history of Milton's epic poem Paradise LostOrlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and continents.

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Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L.

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

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

Este volumen número 7 estudia la presencia de la mitología clásica en la obra y en las representaciones calderonianas.

Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica.

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

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience.

This book is about the search for a lost play.

This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption.

Looking at the novels of James's major phase in the context of fin-de-siecle decadence, this book illuminates central issues in the James corpus and central aspects of a rich and fraught cultural moment.

A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters.

Enzyklopädisch-lexikalisch angelegt, gibt Band 4 des Goethe-Handbuchs Auskunft über Leben, Denken und Wirken des Dichters.

A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new.

In den Literaturwissenschaften geht man bis heute davon aus, dass die literarische Empfindsamkeit aus der »Emanzipation des Bürgertums im 18.