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Language and Literature Categories: Language and Literature, Literary Theory, Old English & Medieval, Renaissance, 18th & 19th Century, Modern & Contemporary, Latin American, German, Ancient
Language and Literature Series: Latin American Literature Series
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Profit and Delight
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation
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Royal Subjects
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Lies Like Truth
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Sexual Shakespeare
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Profit and Delight The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies. |
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation This collection of thirteen essays by an international group of scholars focuses on the impact of the Protestant Reformation on Donne’s life, theology, poetry, and prose. |
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Royal Subjects Sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of King James’s work from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right. |
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Lies Like Truth By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies. |
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Sexual Shakespeare Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works, and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history. |
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Temperate Conquests Temperate Conquests examines Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene within the context of England's international relations and colonial expansion during the Elizabethan period. |
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The Major Latin Poems of Jacopo Sannazaro Beyond making available in English the important work of a major Neo-Latin poet, this book provides provocative material for those interested in the development of English poetry. |
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters A fresh approach toward Renaissance literary production. |
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The Sidney Family Romance The Sidney Family Romance is both a "cultural biography" and a symptomatic reading of the sexual and textual relationships of Herbert and Wroth. |
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Will Power Shakespeare predicted neither palaces nor princes would outlast his "powerful rhyme." In Will Power, Richard Wilson considers the factors that charged Shakespearean literature with such force. |
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