This book presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English Revolution by focusing on royalist poets who left the cause behind following the execution

Explores the myriad ways in which alchemy was conceptualised by adepts and sceptics alike, from those with recourse to a fully functioning laboratory to those w

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuri