Early Modern Cultural Studies – serie
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22 produkter
My First Booke of My Life
Av Alice Thornton, Raymond A. Anselment
Häftad, 2014
351 kr
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An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and …
Portrait of an Island
The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758–1837
Inbunden, 2015
820 kr
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The once-famous trading center of GorÉe, SÉnÉgal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, GorÉe became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured …
My First Booke of My Life
Av Alice Thornton, Raymond A. Anselment
E-bok, 2014
322 kr
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An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and …
Words Like Daggers
Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2015
646 kr
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Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and …
Other Exchange
Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2017
721 kr
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Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in …
Separation Scenes
Domestic Drama in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2017
786 kr
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This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays-the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (ca. 1613), and Walter Mountfort’s The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife …
At the First Table
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2017
341 kr
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Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food.At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a …
Words Like Daggers
Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2017
283 kr
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Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and …
Courage and Grief
Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War
Inbunden, 2018
646 kr
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Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s destructive Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were changing in …
Producing Early Modern London
A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616
Inbunden, 2018
721 kr
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Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater’s use …
Travel and Travail
Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World
Av Patricia Akhimie, Bernadette Andrea
Häftad, 2019
389 kr
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Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no …
Age in Love
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court
Inbunden, 2019
721 kr
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The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature …
Sacred Seeds
New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2019
721 kr
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More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the “discovery” of the Americas. Columbus’s crossing of the Atlantic-and the age of exploration that ensued-dramatically and forever changed the early modern world. The societies, economies, …
Warning for Fair Women
Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater
Inbunden, 2021
1289 kr
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A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeare’s acting company. While important to literary scholars and theater historians, it is also readable, relevant, and stage-worthy today. Dramatizing the murder of London merchant George Saunders by his wife’s lover, …
Early Modern Trauma
Europe and the Atlantic World
Av Erin Peters, Cynthia Richards
Inbunden, 2021
878 kr
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The term trauma refers to a wound or rupture that disorients, causing suffering and fear. Trauma theory has been heavily shaped by responses to modern catastrophes, and as such trauma is often seen as inherently linked to modernity. Yet psychological and cultural trauma as a result of distressing …
Deza and Its Moriscos
Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2020
796 kr
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Bainton Prize for History and Theology Honorable MentionDeza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in Spanish society and culture alongside a dearth of knowledge about individuals or local …
Gentry Rhetoric
Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community
Av Daniel Ellis
Inbunden, 2022
851 kr
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Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes’ practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Daniel Ellis surveys how the gentry of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Norfolk wrote to and negotiated with each other by employing …
Misanthropoetics
Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England
Av Robert Darcy
Inbunden, 2021
851 kr
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Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, …
Making the Marvelous
Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie De Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts
Av Rori Bloom
Inbunden, 2022
851 kr
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At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1652–1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through …
Warning for Fair Women
Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeare’s acting company. While important to literary scholars and theater historians, it is also readable, relevant, and stage-worthy today. Dramatizing the murder of London merchant George Saunders by his wife’s lover, …
Willem Van Den Blocke
A Sculptor of the Low Countries in the Baltic Region
Inbunden, 2020
2709 kr
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Taking Shape
Sculpture of the Low Countries, C. 1400-1600
Av Julie Beckers, Hannah de Moor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2797 kr
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