Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of important fifteenth through nineteenth century authors. Each volume presents exstensive excerpts from published criticism on about 7-9 writers from a variety of genres and nationalities, including novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, historians and others. Beginning with volume 12, each volume of Literature criticism from 1400-1800 includes one topic entry devoted the commentary on a major theme, issue, or time period in world literature. Topic entries examines literacy subjects that cannot be covering under the author-entry approach. Author portraits and ilustrations, facsimile manuscript pages, and pictures related to authors’ lives are included as is a cumulative topic index.