Love and sex are preeminent subjects of Renaissance literature; however, attitudes toward these topics were hardly uniform. The discourses of desire from this period embrace ...

As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the ...

Although the literary circle is widely recognized as a significant feature of Renaissance literary culture, it has received remarkably little examination. In this collection of ...

E. M. Forster ranks among the finest novelists of the twentieth century. In this informed and sensitive survey of Forster's works and life, Claude Summers offers a persuasive ...

Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies ...

"Studying works by Donne, Jonson, Carew, Davenant, Herbert, Herrick, Crashaw, Marvell, Milton, Vaughan, and others, the fourteen new essays in this collection examine ...