Memories of War in Early Modern England

Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare

AvSusan Harlan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

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Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Antal sidor:317
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137588494

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Susan E. Harlan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Wake Forest University, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

CHAPTER 1 – “Objects fit for Tamburlaine”: Self-Arming in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Robert Vaughan’s Portraits, and The Almain Armourer’s Album.- INTERLUDE – Epic Pastness: War Stories, Nostalgic Objects, and Sexual and Textual Spoils in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage.- CHAPTER 2 – Spoiling Sir Philip Sidney: Mourning and Military Violence in the Elegies, Lant’s Roll, and Greville’s Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney.- INTERLUDE – “Scatter’d Men”: Mutilated Male Bodies and Conflicting Narratives of Militant Nostalgia in Shakespeare’s Henry V.- CHAPTER 3 – The Armored Body as Trophy: The Problem of the Roman Subject in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.- CODA – “Let’s Do’t After the High Roman Fashion”: Funeral and Triumph.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.