Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
87 produkter
Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature
Av S. Deng
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both …
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Av L. Noble
Inbunden, 2011
1510 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.
Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds
Av L. McJannet
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature
The Pen and the Sword
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern …
Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature
Inbunden, 2012
1259 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. The essays in this collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of …
Turning Turk
English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean
Av D. Vitkus
Häftad, 2008
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by …
Remembering the Early Modern Voyage
English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion
Av M. Fuller
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.
Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization
Av R. Palmer
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. It treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.
Early Modern Ecostudies
From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2009
1385 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.
Global Traffic
Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of …
Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653-1759
Av H. Weber
Inbunden, 2008
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory.
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
Av J. Ward
Inbunden, 2008
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society …
Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance
Barbarian Errors
Av I. Smith
Inbunden, 2010
1259 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.
Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men.
Idols of the Marketplace
Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580–1680
Av D. Hawkes
Inbunden, 2001
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with …
Shakespeare Among the Animals
Nature and Society in the Drama of Early Modern England
Av B. Boehrer
Inbunden, 2002
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Jonson's Volpone , and Middleton's A Chaste Maid …
Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy
Londoners and Provincial Reform in Early Modern England
Av J. Ward
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their cultural authority in distant parts of the nation. Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy analyzes how disputes between London and provincial authorities over such benefactions demonstrated the …
Shakespeare and the Question of Culture
Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn
Av D. Bruster
Inbunden, 2003
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. …
Shakespeare and the Question of Culture
Early Modern Literature and the Cultural Turn
Av D. Bruster
Häftad, 2003
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. …
Turning Turk
English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean
Av D. Vitkus
Inbunden, 2003
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by …
Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
Inbunden, 2002
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam …
Reformations of the Body
Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
Av J. Waldron
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
Milton Now
Alternative Approaches and Contexts
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century
The Popularization of Romance
Av I. Moulton
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that …
Memories of War in Early Modern England
Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
Av Susan Harlan
Inbunden, 2016
1262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the …
Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature
Av S. Deng
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both …
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Av L. Noble
Häftad, 2011
1513 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.
Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds
Av L. McJannet
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature
The Pen and the Sword
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern …
Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature
Häftad, 2012
1262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. The essays in this collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or epistemologically from other forms of …
