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Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the Society.
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Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre... Læs mere
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An examination of the importance of language in forming a nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the... Læs mere
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Explores the relationship among political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's... Læs mere
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Respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a... Læs mere
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Explores Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland. This study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously suspected.
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Argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional,... Læs mere
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Addresses one of the enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines.
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Provides information on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the 17th and 18th centuries.... Læs mere
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Focuses on the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden... Læs mere
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Through fresh and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical,... Læs mere
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Roger North is known as a biographer and writer on music, architecture and estate management. This book offers an interpretation of North's philosophy by retrieving what is consistent in his pattern of thought and by analyzing some of his practices and purposes as a writer.