Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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.

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the Romantic period.

Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature.

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law.

This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindiciae Gallicae and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindiciae Gallicae in the late summer of 1791.

Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.

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 book offers a comprehensive analysis of Defoe's oeuvre from the perspective of the historian.

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.

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works.

Zur Literatur- und Imaginationsgeschichte einer typisch modernen Faszination.

Der Fokus der vorliegenden Dissertationsschrift liegt auf der Zäsur des in der Forschung in zwei Werkkomplexe geteilten Gesamtwerkes Jean Pauls, auf dem Übergang von den Satiren zu seinem Romanerstling, der Unsichtbaren Loge.

This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis.

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen.

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination.

Withan unconventional new perspective, Andersonidentifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as ajourney and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material.

This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film.

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.

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This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel.

The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays.

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.

Ein Zeichen sind wir, deutungslos.

This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808.