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The Emergence of the English Author
Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England
Av Kevin Pask, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
898 kr
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The historical construction of literary authorship has long been of particular interest to literary scholars. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author - the literary biography or 'life of the poet' - has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, …
Staging Domesticity
Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
Av Wendy Wall, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in …
Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe
Av William N. West, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In this 2003 book West explores what 'theatre' meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and places Renaissance drama within the influential context of the encyclopedic writings produced at the time. It was an encyclopedic culture, obsessed with sorting knowledge, and early encyclopedias presented …
Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland
Av Christopher Highley, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish. Through a range of literary representations …
Spenser's Secret Career
Av Richard Rambuss, Stephen Orgel
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in …
The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612
Av Claire McEachern, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1029 kr
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The Poetics of English Nationhood is a 1996 study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern aims to recontextualize our understanding of the term literary through an examination of Spenser, Shakespeare and Drayton. She shows how the concept of …
Shakespeare's Troy
Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire
Av Heather James, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources demonstrates the appropriation of classical authority in the interests of developing a national myth, and …
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Av Lynn Enterline, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
640 kr
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This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on …
Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
Av Theodore B. Leinwand, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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This interesting study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people …
Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage
Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible
Av Celia R. Daileader, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the theoretical and theatrical problem of sexual acts that …
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic
Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Av Jonathan Gil Harris, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
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Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's ills to 'foreign bodies' such as …
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell
Av Dorothy Stephens, Stephen Orgel
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favour only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges between 'masculine' and 'feminine' in Renaissance culture. 'Appropriation' is too simple a term to …
The Marketplace of Print
Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England
Av Alexandra Halasz, Stephen Orgel
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding their circulation reveals that pamphlets became a focus for anxieties …
From Playhouse to Printing House
Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England
Av Douglas A. Brooks, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
486 kr
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This study examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries made the difficult transition from writing plays for the theatre to publishing them as literary works. Tracing the path from playhouse to printing house, Douglas Brooks analyses how and why certain popular plays found their way into print …
The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
Av David M. Posner, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
973 kr
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This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner …
The Reformation of the Subject
Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
Av Linda Gregerson, Stephen Orgel
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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The Reformation of the Subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the English Protestant epic. In lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, Linda Gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of The Faerie …
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Av T. G. Bishop, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder, T. G. Bishop argues that wonder provides a turbulent space, rich at once in emotion and self-consciousness, where the nature …
Defending Literature in Early Modern England
Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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Why was literature so often defended and defined in early modern England in terms of its ability to provide the Horatian ideal of both profit and pleasure? This book, first published in 2000, analyses Renaissance literary theory in the context of social transformations of the period, focusing on …
Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
Identity Formation and the Female Subject
Av Megan Matchinske, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, …
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
Av Seth Lerer, Stephen Orgel m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern …
Voyages in Print
English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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The decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the emergence of a vast and heterogeneous literature. In the multiple relations of writing to discovery over these decades, these texts played a role more powerful than …
Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England
Browne's Skull and Other Histories
Häftad, 2007
860 kr
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Howard Marchitello's 1997 study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of literary texts, such as those by Shakespeare and Browne, with developments in scientific and technical writing. In Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England he explores the …
The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2007
486 kr
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What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety …
Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature
The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how …
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, a specifically Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. In the work of many …
The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Av Elizabeth Fowler, Roland Greene
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? And how did it operate in the literary and social world? The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World brings together ten essays by leading scholars of the literatures of England, …
Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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In early modern England, boys and girls learned to be masculine or feminine as they learned to read and write. This 1999 book explores how gender differences, instilled through specific methods of instruction in literacy, were scrutinised in the English public theatre. Close readings of plays from …
The Renaissance Dialogue
Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo
Av Virginia Cox
Häftad, 2008
692 kr
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This is a full-length study of the use of the dialogue form in Italy from the early sixteenth century until Galileo. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it examines the characteristics which determined the genre's unrivalled popularity in the period as a vehicle for polemic, debate, technical …
Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but in legal records, …
Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
Häftad, 2009
695 kr
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Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between …
