Literary Studies / Early Modern Literature

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.

Quixotic Memories explores the complexity of memory through the lens of Miguel de Cervantes and his famous novel Don Quixote.

Cervantes' Architectures uncovers and examines the countless architectures found in Cervantes’ prose fiction.

God Made Word is an interdisciplinary study of mystic language across multiple genres and institutional contexts in early modern Spain.

This pioneering comparative study of Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represents key moments and figures of the English Reformation.

Cures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.

This interdisciplinary study argues that the intersection of pedagogical and affective language in Renaissance literature shows that emotion was conceived as a conventional practice.

Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

Available for the first time in English and in graphic novel format, Lazarillo de Tormes is a gritty and shocking classic that is frequently compared to Don Quixote.

This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.

All Wonders in One Sight compares the portrayals of the Christ Child in the Nativity poems of the greatest names in seventeenth-century English lyric.

Giving translations of Iberian chivalric Romance a centrality they have never before received, this collection explores their impact on Elizabethan culture and influence on other contemporary genres.

This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.