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Connu pendant le Directoire et notamment sous l'Empire pour ses succ?s de scandale et pour sa posture rebelle qui en fait une victime privil?gi?e de la censure, N?pomuc?ne Louis Lemercier fait...

Composed in Naples in the 1530s, Juan de Vald?s's Di?logo de la lengua occupies a special place in Spanish humanism, just as its author is widely acknowledged by Renaissance scholars as one of the...

Madame de Souza was an eighteenth-century political journalist of undisputed talent. She did not fear to accuse religion of falsely justifying intolerant political attitudes, or using indoctrination...

Le Si?ge de Calais, hailed by its author in 1765 as France's 'premi?re trag?die nationale', rolled into Paris like a storm. Pierre-Laurent de Belloy's play about French bravery during the Hundred...

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours of the theft and dissection of Sterne's corpse circulated in the anatomy schools,...

The saga englynion are among the most appealing medieval Welsh poems. Despite some difficulties, their style is generally direct and their contents interesting to modern readers. In these poems the...

The first modern edition of the princeps of the Instituzione d'ogni stato lodevole delle donne cristiane, a collection of conduct treatises for women published in Venice in 1575 by Cardinal Agostino...

An edition of two manuscript essays found in the family archives of the descendants of the painter and writer Eug?ne Fromentin. These unpublished essays were submitted in 1840 by their author, Albert...

Alexis Piron fut longtemps l'auteur c?l?bre d'une com?die satirique, 'La M?tromanie' et d'une Ode ? Priape qui lui ferma d?finitivement la porte de l'Acad?mie. Mais il fut aussi un des meilleurs...

A scholarly edition of Alexis Piron's tragedy Fernand-Cortés (1744), with introduction and explanatory notes in English.Author: Derek ConnonPublisher: Modern Humanities Research...

The Cantigas de Santa Maria, commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile (r. 1252-1284), are one of the largest medieval vernacular collections of lyric and narrative verse in praise of the Blessed...

The Florentine poet Antonio Malatesti (1610-1672) earned a brief but significant mention in the earliest history of Italian literature for his contributions to the renewal of the sonnet form in two...

Austria is, topographically, an Alpine country. Yet the mountains that cover two thirds of modern Austria's territory are often still viewed as a provincial location in contrast to cosmopolitan...

The 2023 volume of Austrian Studies focuses on travel writing by authors from Austria and the Habsburg lands.Author: Florian Krobb, Caitríona LeahyPublisher: Modern Humanities Research...

Aza ou le N?gre is a slave novel that was published anonymously in 1792, during the French Revolution. It differs from other contemporaneous works like Jean-Fran?ois de Saint-Lambert's Zim?o and de...

Dans le Paris de la fin du r?gne de Louis XIV, la Comtesse et la Marquise, deux jeunes veuves peu press?es de se remarier, m?nent une vie de plaisirs, libre et oisive. Rivalisant de coquetterie et de...

En 1775 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre quitte Paris pour se rendre en Normandie, pour revoir sa soeur et les gens qu'il avait depuis longtemps perdus de vue. Il fait ce voyage surtout ? pied et en route...

The seventeenth-century Mexican poet, playwright and nun, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, is best known for her secular works, most notably her damning indictment of male double standards, Hombres necios...

K?nig Rother, Salman und Morolf, the M?nchner Oswald and Grauer Rock (otherwise known as Orendel) have had a troubled position in the literary history of medieval Germany. Forced into a normative...

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2014 is devoted to Caroline literature, a period of English writing (1625-49) falling between the Jacobean period and the Interregnum. The volume, edited by Rory...

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was known in his lifetime as the Christian Horace. He was one of the most famous Neo-Latin poets of the Baroque, widely read, commented and translated...

The Yearbook of English Studies volume 53 (2023).Author: Sue Niebrzydowski, Vicki Kay PricePublisher: Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublication Date: May 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Austria-Hungary did not aquire a formal empire overseas, but Austrians (sometimes in official or semi-official capacities) engaged in a variety of colonial activities and thereby contributed to the...

This study focuses upon the work of the Catalan woman poet Maria-Merc? Mar?al. It analyses the interaction between body and language in her first five books of poetry. Drawing on the Italian feminist...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1927-73), one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the post-war period, famously turned away from the lyric during the 1960s. Publicly declaring that she had stopped...

Although the Habsburg authorities did not organize a concerted war effort on the home front, contemporary commentators nevertheless made frequent reference to cultural mobilization among the civilian...

Cette ?dition donnera au lecteur l'occasion de d?couvrir le th??tre ?rotique du XVIIIe si?cle, facette m?connue de la th??tromanie de l'?poque. Les textes, extr?mement rares, r?unis dans ce volume...

The Yearbook of English Studies 2013 is devoted to early English drama, ranging from what is generally understood as 'medieval' to plays of the early Tudor period, while also including chapters on...

Among the most enigmatic and fascinating of early Welsh poems are the sequences of stanzas commonly categorized as gnomic. In their most typical form they juxtapose vivid natural description with...

El camino inverso: del cine al teatro, estudia el tema de las adaptaciones de obras f?lmicas a la escena teatral (adaptaciones "inversas") como fen?meno emergente en el ?mbito art?stico actual y un...