The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society, and food as a cultural encounter between European explorers and new worlds during the early Renaissance....Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849553)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does Swiftian mean to you? For many, the name is synonymous with ingen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849560)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does “Swiftian” mean to you? For many, the name is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849287)
Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, re...Loe edasi...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the belly-monstrous as a crucial point of intersection between mothers...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps dYver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. Jacques Yver’s stories and their premise – three gentlemen and two noble women who spin five tales in order...Loe edasi...
Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Alice A. Kuzniar, Eleanor ter Horst, Anthony Curtis Adler, Richard Block, Mary Bricker, Wolfgang Bunzel, Matthew Childs, Peter Höyng, Jeffrey Jarzomb...
Sari: Goethe Yearbook
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142589)
Features essays on works by Goethe and his contemporaries, a presentation of two unknown fragments by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a Forum section on mens and womens friendships, a roundtable of editors of journals on the eighteenth and nineteenth century, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009650021)
From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith provides an interdisciplinary reimagining of the Romantic witch, shedding new light on the history of witchcraft and its influence on...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the Elizabethan period against its social background. It considers the major authors of prose fiction and examines how they organised thei...Loe edasi...
The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective. The selection in this book, originally published in 1985, both illustrate t...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself was that of the law, and this book takes the man as a w...Loe edasi...
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating thes...Loe edasi...
Argues that Shakespeares plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate them or make them feminist....Loe edasi...
Animates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems. Logomotives are words that change worlds – past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009728355)
Minerva was Britains most popular and internationally influential Press at the turn of the nineteenth century. Eve Tavor Bannets groundbreaking study reveals how its women writers developed genres now considered to be emblematic of the 1800s while...Loe edasi...
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009735650)
John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been no sustained study comparing the two poets. In this book, the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik places t...Loe edasi...
This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing, it could be unsettling, it could be used as a way of depicting madness itself or of treating that madness. This book explores the many w...Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198974147)
This is the first full-length study of the relevance of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) to the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Since the publication of his correspondence between 2009 and 2016, Becketts interest in Sade has become more widely k...Loe edasi...
Exploring 18th-century medicines construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and Ger...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646789)
Exploring Romantic writers free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific research, Sophie Musitelli reveals how the physiology of the senses allowed them to envision new modalities of sensation, in an a...Loe edasi...
The present volume focuses on a two-fold issue: food as a cultural element that united Mediterranean European society, and food as a cultural encounter between European explorers and new worlds during the early Renaissance....Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849553)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does Swiftian mean to you? For many, the name is synonymous with ingen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849560)
Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative potential of literature. What does “Swiftian” mean to you? For many, the name is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849287)
Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110782325)
Johann Gottfried Herder did not himself use the term naturalism, which only appears in the later nineteenth century, but scholars now widely agree that its spirit and intent characterize his thought as a whole. Herder sought to provide an accoun...Loe edasi...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...Loe edasi...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...Loe edasi...
This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the belly-monstrous as a crucial point of intersection between mothers...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps dYver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. Jacques Yver’s stories and their premise – three gentlemen and two noble women who spin five tales in order...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bucknell University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684485970)
A new, transnational perspective on nineteenth-century French Romantic icon Chateaubriand. Moore uncovers his readership abroad and traces how his work put pressure on English Romantics and early North and South American writers to engage with his...Loe edasi...
A new, transnational perspective on nineteenth-century French Romantic icon Chateaubriand. Moore uncovers his readership abroad and traces how his work put pressure on English Romantics and early North and South American writers to engage with his...Loe edasi...
Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Alice A. Kuzniar, Eleanor ter Horst, Anthony Curtis Adler, Richard Block, Mary Bricker, Wolfgang Bunzel, Matthew Childs, Peter Höyng, Jeffrey Jarzomb...
Sari: Goethe Yearbook
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142589)
Features essays on works by Goethe and his contemporaries, a presentation of two unknown fragments by E.T.A. Hoffmann, a Forum section on mens and womens friendships, a roundtable of editors of journals on the eighteenth and nineteenth century, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009650021)
From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith provides an interdisciplinary reimagining of the Romantic witch, shedding new light on the history of witchcraft and its influence on...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the Elizabethan period against its social background. It considers the major authors of prose fiction and examines how they organised thei...Loe edasi...
The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective. The selection in this book, originally published in 1985, both illustrate t...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
