Early Modern Literary Geographies – serie
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15 produkter
St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Spatial Practices
Inbunden, 2020
1435 kr
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Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and contested, with multiple …
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage
Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609
Inbunden, 2022
2017 kr
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During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the sky above. The drama written for performance …
Blackfriars in Early Modern London
Theater, Church, and Neighborhood
Inbunden, 2022
1599 kr
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Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the incongruous juxtaposition of playing and godly preaching. As the former site of one of London's great religious houses, …
Shakespeare Beyond the Green World
Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain
Inbunden, 2023
1648 kr
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Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes that the playwright was remarkably attentive to the environmental issues of his era. As a court dramatist, he designed his plays to captivate a patron deeply involved in both the …
Golden Age Elysium
Shakespeare, Jonson, the Cavaliers, Milton, Marvell
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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Golden Age Elysium follows the publication of Patrick Cheney's Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros. Together, the two books are the first to study the Elysian Golden Age as a temporal place in English Renaissance culture. Collectively, they posit that …
The Absence of America
The London Stage, 1576-1642
Av Gavin Hollis
Inbunden, 2015
1894 kr
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The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576â1642 examines why early modern drama's response to English settlement in the New World was muted, even though the so-called golden age of Shakespeare coincided with the so-called golden age of exploration: no play is set in the Americas; few plays treat …
Dramatic Geography
Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Inbunden, 2017
1767 kr
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Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays' connections to a historical …
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
Inbunden, 2018
2102 kr
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The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household décor within a single lifetime, and they delighted, inspired, and fascinated people across the …
Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance
Inbunden, 2019
2178 kr
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Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable …
Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage
Av Andrew Bozio
Inbunden, 2020
2062 kr
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they …
Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England
Av Mary Floyd-Wilson, Garrett A. Sullivan
Inbunden, 2020
1599 kr
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Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England gathers essays from prominent scholars of English Renaissance literature and history who have made substantial contributions to the study of early modern embodiment, historical phenomenology, affect, cognition, memory, and natural philosophy. It …
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain
Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros
Inbunden, 2025
1451 kr
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Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in English Renaissance culture. The absence of such a study in the fields of literature and geography is surprising: from its captivating origin in the oceanic margins of Homer's …
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton
Inbunden, 2024
1771 kr
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The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broadermineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems, a role that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. The scale of the human lifespan and the gyre-like …
Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
Stages of Unsettlement
Av Caro Pirri
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how early modern English dramatists preserved and instrumentalized the early history of England's failed conquests of the Americas in the formal techniques they used to stage fictional worlds. Scholars have long noted that early …
Sacred Space and Gender in Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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Sacred Space and Gender in Early Modern English Literature examines the poetics of locality and spirituality in narrative poetry and drama (specifically comedy) by focusing on Books 1 and 2 of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, William Shakespeare's As You Like …
