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The Artist as Original Genius
This book examines the first generation of artists in Britain to define themselves as history painters, attempting what then was considered to be art's most exalted category. These …
Shakespeare's Lyricized Drama
We are so used to calling the plays written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 'poetic drama' that we hardly ever stop to think about the generic meaning of the term. This book …
Arts of Empire
Focusing on Ireland and the New World -- the two central colonial projects of Elizabethan and Stuart England -- this book explores the emergings of a colonialist consciousness in …
Visionary Queen
The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre's status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and …
World of Elizabeth Inchbald
This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired …
Defoe’s Major Fiction
This book focuses on the pervasive concern with narrativity and self-construction that marks Defoe’s first-person fictional narratives. Defoe’s fictions focus obsessively and …
Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives
This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe’s work by probing his interest in rendering …
A Richard Selzer Reader
A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink is a career-spanning collection, including major short stories and essays by the renowned doctor-author. In the 1960s, while practicing as a …
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make …
Laughter, Pain & Wonder
This work explores the relations between Shakespeare's comedies and their theatrical audience and attempts to demonstrate that laughter, pain, and wonder are the primary responses …
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are …
The Theatre of Death
This book discusses some rituals of justice—such as public executions, printed responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s execution speech, and King Charles I’s treason trial—in …