This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social, political and sexual experience. Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the...
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of socia...
A major collection of essays by leading scholars of the social, political, economic and cultural situation of women and men in early modern Europe. The text provides examples of the major approaches - gender studies, family studies and studies of religion and popular culture.
A major collection of essays by leading scholars of the social, political, economic and cultural situation of women and men in early modern Europe. Th...
Bringing together important theoretical work defining the role and practices of culture, this volume provides a historical overview of the field. The book includes a wide range of texts from 19th-century thinkers and contemporary theorists.
Bringing together important theoretical work defining the role and practices of culture, this volume provides a historical overview of the field. The ...
