Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period.

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

Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature tracks flashpoint events in U.

This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled.

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats's places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic.

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare's poetry and his position in the Romantic canon.

This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period.

This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism.

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error.

This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six, white, male Romantics by focusing on marginalised, forgotten and lost writers and their long-neglected works.

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 explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic.

This book illuminates how the 'long eighteenth century' (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art.

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern.

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole.

What has dance got to do with the Trinity, a hospital bed to do with gratitude, or email to do with prayer?

Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.

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 Palgrave Pivot argues for the significance of allegory in Enlightenment writing.

This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing.

This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a political philosophy perspective.

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.

A culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and EuropeIn this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy.

A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy.

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saiko (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) - experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting.

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

George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together.

How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action Bold Conscience chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint-what Shakespeare labels "e;coward conscience"e;-to one of bold and forthright self-assertion.

Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A.

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A meditation on holiness and beauty through the study of Saint Mary of Egypt.

La publicación forma parte de la Monumenta Landivariana, serie mayor, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer estudios generales y especializados en torno a la obra poético-literaria de Rafael Landívar.

La publicación forma parte del proyecto Monumenta Landivariana, serie menor, la cual busca divulgar la obra poética del P.

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.

Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period.

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

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information.

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

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant.

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

For many years now, the church in North America has heard figure after figure concerning the steady flow of young people leaving the church.

This enlightening book examines the physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners’ lives and religious practices.

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake's poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson.