Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit betrachtet "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" von Johann Wolfgang Goethe näher. Sie möchte die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Veranstaltung: Proseminar Romantik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unter den Pseudonymen „Tian" und „Ion" veröffentlichte...

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella' is one of the major Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted here in an attractive new edition. 'Astrophel and Stella' is a sonnet cycle of...

From Theocritus' Idylls to James Cameron's Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by...

The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser's massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his...

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing...

Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new...

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton's (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton's works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to...

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out...

Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the...

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights,...

Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton studies the relationship between English poetry and church discipline in four carefully chosen bodies of poetry written between the Reformation and the death of John Milton. Its primary goal is to...

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on...

How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time?...

Voyages Imaginaires V30: Songes, Visions, Et Romans Cabalistiques (1788) est un livre �����crit par Augustin Martin Lottin. Ce livre est le trenti�����me volume de la s�����rie ""Voyages Imaginaires"". Il contient des histoires de r������ves, de visions...

La Guerre Des Masles Contre Les Femelles (1588) est un livre �����crit par Nicolas De Cholieres. Il s'agit d'une satire sociale qui raconte l'histoire d'une guerre entre les hommes et les femmes. Le livre se d�����roule dans un monde imaginaire o�����...

The Quiet Life: Certain Verses By Various Hands, The Motive Set Forth In A Prologue And Epilogue (1889) is a collection of poems compiled by Austin Dobson. The book features works by several authors, each exploring the theme of a quiet life. The poems...

Les Soir�����es Helv�����tiques, Partie 1-2 : Alsaciennes et Fran-Comtoises (1772) est un livre �����crit par Alexandre Fr�����d�����ric Jacques Depezay. Il s'agit d'un recueil de contes et de l�����gendes de la r�����gion de l'Alsace et de la...

Commentatio De Comitiis Veterum Germanorum Antiquis est liber scriptus a Joanne Jacobo Sorbero anno MDCCXLV. In hoc libro, auctor tractat de comitiis antiquis Germanorum, quae erant consuetudines politicae et iuridicae in Germania antiqua. Sorberus...

Le livre ""Abbr�����g����� de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, Partie 1: D'�����cosse et d'Irlande divis����� en trois parties"" de Duverdier, Gilbert Saulnier a �����t����� publi����� en 1679. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui traite de l'histoire de...

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period's own "aesthetic-historical culture" which...

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry...

In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages African Americans’ transatlantic negotiations...

Fashionable Follies Volume 1, written by Thomas Vaughan and published in 1810, is a historical novel that follows the lives of a Parisian family during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book also offers a glimpse into the English character. The...

Correspondance D�������Un Habitant De Paris Avec Ses Amis De Suisse Et D�������Angleterre (1791) est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois-Louis Escherny. Il s'agit d'une collection de lettres �����chang�����es entre un habitant de Paris et ses amis en...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Expanding the scholarly conversation about anonymity in Renaissance England, this essay collection explores the phenomenon in all its variety of methods and genres as well as its complex relationship with its alter ego, attribution studies. Contributors...

For centuries England's writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the...

Beautiful Thoughts From French And Italian Authors is a book compiled by Craufurd Tait Ramage and published in 1875. It is a collection of quotes and passages from various French and Italian authors, including Victor Hugo, Dante Alighieri, and...

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world.

Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to...

Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with...

""Documents Illustrative Of The History Of Scotland V1: From The Death Of King Alexander The Third To The Accession Of Robert Bruce, 1786-1806"" is a historical book written by Joseph Stevenson. This book is the first volume of a series of documents that...

Females of the Present Day: Considered as to Their Influence on Society is a book written by an anonymous author who identifies herself only as ""A Country Lady."" Published in 1831, the book explores the role of women in society and their impact on the...

Einhards Jahrb�����cher ist eine historische Abhandlung von Einhard, einem bedeutenden Gelehrten und Berater des Kaisers Karl des Gro�����en. Das Buch wurde erstmals im Jahr 830 ver������ffentlicht und enth�����lt eine detaillierte Beschreibung der...

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in...

This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes we tend to understand in scientific terms had implications for, and were implicated by, changes in literary structure, revealing that the...

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the...

A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe...

La Pariseide, Partie 1-2 : Ou Paris Dans Les Gaules (1773) est un livre �����crit par Claude Godard d'Aucour. Ce livre d�����crit l'histoire de Paris, la ville fran�����aise la plus c�����l�����bre, depuis l'Antiquit����� jusqu'au XVIIIe si�����cle. Dans...

This book examines apian imagery-bees, drones, honey, and the hive-in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society...

Justini Historiarum Ex Trogo Pompeio Libri XLIIII est opus historicum a Marco Juniano Justinus scriptum. Libri XLIIII narratio Romanorum historiam a Troiano bello usque ad Augusti imperium describit. Justinus, qui in saeculo tertio post Christum natum...

Diversarum Gentium Historiae Antiquae Scriptores Tres est liber qui collectio est trium scriptorum qui historias antiquas diversarum gentium scripserunt. Hi scriptores sunt Herodotus, Thucydides, et Xenophon. Liber auctus est ab Friedricho Lindenbrog...

Torfaeana est liber qui continet Thormodi Torfaei Notas Posteriores In Seriem Regum Daniae, Epistolas Latinas. Hic liber editus est anno 1777. Thormodus Torfaeus, qui scripsit hunc librum, fuit historiographus Islandiae. In hoc libro, Thormodus Torfaeus...

The Weaver's Boy, A Tale: And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by Chauncy Hare Townshend and published in 1825. The book is divided into two parts - the first part contains the titular poem, The Weaver's Boy, which tells the story of a young...

The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story is a novel written by Clara Reeve and published in 1777. The story is set in medieval England and follows the adventures of a young woman named Agnes de Vaux. Agnes is the daughter of a nobleman who is murdered by...