This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spir

This 2003 book is a full-scale history of early modern English literature, offering perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformati

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