Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Holly A. Crocker
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829679
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late medieval and early modern English poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered male agent but rather, and as women more frequently experienced it, as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others.
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
Georgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing critical attention to the real and imagined women and men who made and used paper, Wilson shows how paper makes literature not only as a physical object but also as a discipline.
Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean
Kim Hall
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827866
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
Tracing the literal and literary uses of sugar in seventeenth-century England, The Sweet Taste of Empire shows how literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery.
Ingrid Nelson traces the development of media concepts from the twelfth through the fifteenth century across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains, offering a coherent theory of premodern media. Medieval Media expands our understanding of media history and opens new avenues for medieval literary studies.
The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry
Whitney Sperrazza
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512827590
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology.
The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature
Anders M. Greene-Crow
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826258
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Austerity Measures explores how early modern writers used poetry to fight food insecurity. Taking writers’ material conditions into account, Anders M. Greene-Crow recovers the role of one of our most basic needs—the need to eat—within literary criticism, shedding new light on modern-day food ethics and activism’s place in literature.
