Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

Austen'sUnbecomingConjunctions is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects, and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed.

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century.

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with 'Whig poetry': a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty.

This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction.

This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the "e;Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law.

This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.

Bedeutender Dichter und großer Geist der Aufklärung.

Der Band enthält die Hauptvorträge und Sektionsbeiträge der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18.

Charles Sorels Histoire comique de Francion (1623–1633) und Paul Scarrons Roman comique (1651/1657), die hier zusammen mit Antoine Furetières Roman bourgeois (1666) untersucht werden, waren veritable Bestseller im Frankreich des 17.

This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Mit bewahrt einfachen Experimenten fuhrt Erfolgsautor Georg Schwedt seine Leser diesmal durch die vier Jahreszeiten.

Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers.

More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant.

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.

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity.

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present.

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement.

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 volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness.