This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that…

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English…

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction,…

The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of…

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible…

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows…

Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as…

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an…

Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to…