Holly D Nelson

Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum

Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial lite...

Eikon Basilike with Selections from Eikonoklastes

Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king’s motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writi...

Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies)

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South America, where he has served variously as a site o...

Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory

Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experi...

French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400-2000

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women write...

The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vol. 1: Verse (Broadview Anthologies of English Literature) (Broadview Literary Texts)

The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain...

The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Prose

The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain...

Petunia, the Girl Who Was Not a Princess

Petunia is NOT a princess. She doesn't want to be fancy or frilly and she certainly doesn't want another little princess moving in next door. But, when the newest neighbor likes pink and climbing trees, maybe Petunia can make a new friend and stay true to her self.