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This text follows a chronological account of Jonathan Swift’s life. It focuses on "Gulliver’s Travels", but also discuss......more

The phrase "early modern" challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines conte......more

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This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and social......more

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Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of crit......more

Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare’s plays, often leading to the death of at......more

The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, bu......more

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This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as p......more

Page argues that Erasmus Darwin’s call to ’enlist the imagination under the banner of science’ began a literary narrativ......more

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted i......more

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First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton’s most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern dra......more

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne’s Essais and their fortunes in early moder......more

Site Unscene: The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama demonstrates that Renaissance playwrights pioneered a hybrid for......more

Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare exp......more

Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare exp......more

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This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of ......more

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Ren......more

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained r......more

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained r......more

This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pf......more

What aspects of the conjugal event are staged by stories of marriage in the Renaissance? By linking cultural history and......more

Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travell......more

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes a timely reminder of the power and possib......more

Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet e......more

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This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation ......more

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling: a compelling novel weaves a tapestry and we enjoy hearing some......more

Inspiration in the Age ofEnlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augusta......more

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group ......more

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How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what ar......more

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and u......more

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England s history, yet the period has ......more

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern E......more

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This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays--the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), T......more

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussio......more

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Love’s Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love ......more

This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh’s diversified career and achievements. The essays s......more

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The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that ins......more

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that ins......more

Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications......more

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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral......more

Published annually as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects......more

Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. S......more

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic ana......more

Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definitio......more

Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies......more

This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the......more

The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between the world of printed untruth and private, handwritten, ......more

This volume gives Asia s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alterna......more

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Throughout his poetry, as he explored how human beings could and should align their wills with God’s, John Milton grappl......more

Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent sys......more

Offering texts on a variety of aspects of the Anglo-French Renaissance instead of concentrating on one set of borrowings......more

Bess of Hardwick s Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan d......more

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Each of the figures examined in this study"John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Le......more