Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public.

How the study of Shakespeare's legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean In the field of adaptation studies today, the idea of reading an adapted text as "e;faithful"e; or "e;unfaithful"e; to its original source strikes many scholars as too simplistic, too conservative, and too moralizing.

Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year has taken on a new relevance with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena.

No other American novelist has written so fully about language-grammar, diction, the place of colloquialism and dialect in literary English, the relation between speech and writing-as William Dean Howells.