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.
Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Ralph J. Hexter
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512828542
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Through his excavation of two fifteenth-century Latin comedies about the entrapment of a priest who is eager for sexual activity with men—Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite—Ralph Hexter shows how characters deployed coded language to navigate same-sex relationships. Includes the first published English translations of both plays.
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.
Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England
Susan E. Phillips
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826975
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Exploring the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Susan E. Phillipsoffers a new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace and uncovers a pedagogy that is expansive, flexible, and inclusive.
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.
