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.
Bringing critical race theory and science fiction together, Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging perceptions of race, ethnicity, whiteness, and Blackness in US culture.
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.
Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England
Matthew Ritger
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512828993
Pub Date: April 2026
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Examining how the work of writers including More, Shakespeare, and Milton dealt with humanism’s entanglements with these new prisons, Houses of Correction constructs the first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions.
The Trickster Tales of al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary
Matthew L. Keegan
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512828870
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Before World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories written in an elaborate and highly allusive form of prose.
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.
