Book of Donmon Teith

The editors of this book have brought together a collection of first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity of contemporary theory.--Ralph Flores, Phi

This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intri

Unlike many introductions to literary theory, this text offers a sustained discussion of a specific period of English Literature. Avoiding the danger of employi

Interprets the rhetoric and poetry of the Renaissance afresh from typical theory and practice as the first step toward interpreting those traditions of criticis

Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This