Exploring the imaginative habits of thought of early modern thinkers—including Shakespeare, Milton, Sidney, Bacon, Spenser, and Cavendish—Possible Knowledge enacts a history of ideas that centers literary studies and suggests that what we term a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination.
Ways of Understanding the World in the Nineteenth Century
Edward Beasley
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781606181850
Pub Date: March 2027
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
How did well-meaning Victorians try to make sense of the teeming diversity of people in London and across the globe? This thorough, clearly written work of cultural history ranges from literature to art to law to statistics, examining the different habits of mind employed in characterizing humanity in the nineteenth century.
The Kinetic Text revisits the eccentric literary landscape that emerged in England in the roughly two hundred years after the rise of print in order to introduce a new theory of early modern poetics centered on the expressive potential of the material text.
Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts
Andrew Mattison
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829860
Pub Date: October 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Rethinking the relationship of current literary criticism to the discipline’s past, Reading the Literary Past presents an interpretive approach to literary criticism grounded in critical histories rather than methods, attentive to the idiosyncrasy of reading and the contingencies influencing it.
Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric explores how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry informed how their authors, including John Donne and William Shakespeare, imagined possibilities for nearness and desire.
Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading public. The story of the simple reader provides a new perspective on reading, gender, and identity at the intersection of religious rule and literary fiction.
