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Romanticism and Postmodernism
The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and... Les mer
Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, so... Les mer
Reading the French Enlightenment
Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse.... Les mer
Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April... Les mer
Ælfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin ‘letter’ to his fellow monks at... Les mer
The Royal Image
1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of... Les mer
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions... Les mer
Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660
The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of... Les mer
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The... Les mer
The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy’s fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy’s fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most... Les mer
Lexical Strata in English
In Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the... Les mer
Conditionals and Prediction
This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional... Les mer
Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
King Richard III
King Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently-performed plays. Janis Lull’s introduction to this new edition, based on the... Les mer
Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750–1835
The growth of female reading audiences from the mid-eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women’s... Les mer
A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580–1642
This Dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of English professional plays from the... Les mer
Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
This study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the... Les mer
Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
This book re-examines some of Shakespeare’s best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened... Les mer
Making the English Canon
Jonathan Brody Kramnick’s book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details... Les mer
Hamlet
This edition tells the story of Hamlet in production, from Burbage at the Globe to Branagh on film, relating stage interpretations to developments in... Les mer