"This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. T…
Especially examines the experiences of Jews, Lutherans, Quakers, Baptists, and members of other groups not part of the official Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherland.
Interlinguicity, internationality, and Shakespeare
"Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespear…
"Thomas Dekker (c.1572–1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker’s prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and relatively neglected perio…
"How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issue…
"Our analysis shall focus on the music of Polish composers of the baroque period, i.e. from the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century."--Page 45. "This book looks at the rich means of text interpretation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Polish music, a relat…