Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture – serie
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Open Subjects
English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability
Av James Kuzner
Inbunden, 2011
1531 kr
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'This is revelatory work that pries open challenging literary texts to reveal human vulnerability as a central thematic and political element. Kuzner will change our thinking about the early modern subject.'Barbara Correll, Cornell University'Sensitive to ambient changes in social life, Kuzner's …
Don Quixote in the Archives
Madness and Literature in Early Modern Spain
Av Dale Shuger
Inbunden, 2012
2102 kr
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A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity.From the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the 'literary' madness previously studied. Drawing on over 100 accounts of insanity …
Don Quixote in the Archives
Madness and Literature in Early Modern Spain
Av Dale Shuger
E-bok, 2012
394 kr
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A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity.From the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the ''literary'' madness previously studied. Drawing on over 100 accounts of insanity …
Untutored Lines
The Making of the English Epyllion
Inbunden, 2012
1498 kr
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A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education …
Untutored Lines
The Making of the English Epyllion
E-bok, 2012
375 kr
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A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education …
Phantom of Chance
From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Av John D Lyons
E-bok, 2011
375 kr
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How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance.Is chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world?In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed new vigour in the late Renaissance, when converging …
Friendship's Shadows
Women's Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705
Inbunden, 2012
1733 kr
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Penelope Anderson's original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women's friendship of the eighteenth century and after. It uncovers the latent threat of betrayal lurking within politicized classical and humanist …
Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
Gender, Transgression, Adolescence
Inbunden, 2013
2270 kr
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The first full-length study of how the concept of the "girl" was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama.The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread …
Open Subjects
English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability
Av James Kuzner
Häftad, 2012
335 kr
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'This is revelatory work that pries open challenging literary texts to reveal human vulnerability as a central thematic and political element. Kuzner will change our thinking about the early modern subject.'Barbara Correll, Cornell University'Sensitive to ambient changes in social life, Kuzner's …
Inventions of the Skin
The Painted Body in Early English Drama
Inbunden, 2013
1935 kr
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Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stageInventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this book examine goldface and …
Inventions of the Skin
The Painted Body in Early English Drama
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this book examine goldface …
Performing Economic Thought
English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642
E-bok, 2013
375 kr
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Provides an original account of the relationship between economic thought and early modern drama Performing Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the …
Forgetting Differences
Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion
Inbunden, 2015
1455 kr
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Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630This study argues that the political and legislative process of forgetting internal differences, undertaken in France after the civil wars of the sixteenth century, leads to subtle yet …
Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage
Av Pavneet Aulakh, James Kearney
Inbunden, 2026
1455 kr
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Early modern dramatists entertained audiences by staging experiential and experimental knowledge, especially consequential forms of coming to or arriving at knowledge. The contributors to this collection explore the ways in which the culture’s fascination with forms of knowledge creation – …
Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Av Sophie Chiari, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immediate site for the elaboration of any sort of …
Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Av Sophie Chiari, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Inbunden, 2024
1484 kr
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This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immediate site for the elaboration of any sort of …
Writing Europe in Renaissance France
Travels in Reality and Imagination
Av Niall Oddy
Inbunden, 2024
2186 kr
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In this original study, Niall Oddy explores representations of Europe in sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French writing to argue that Europe as an idea evolved in productive dialogue with emerging national consciousness, not as an alternative to the nation state. Analysing literary texts …
Writing Europe in Renaissance France
Travels in Reality and Imagination
Av Niall Oddy
Häftad, 2025
510 kr
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In this original study, Niall Oddy explores representations of Europe in sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French writing to argue that Europe as an idea evolved in productive dialogue with emerging national consciousness, not as an alternative to the nation state. Analysing literary texts …
Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais
Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch
Inbunden, 2024
2270 kr
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Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which …
Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais
Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which …
Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation
Gender and Faith in England, 1550–1650
Inbunden, 2026
1531 kr
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The period following the Reformation saw a rapid increase in the production of funeral monuments in England. Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation argues that gender was a leading factor in this flourishing reformed culture of death. In a religious climate that placed increasing value on the …
Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation
Gender and Faith in England, 1550–1650
E-bok, 2026
1874 kr
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The period following the Reformation saw a rapid increase in the production of funeral monuments in England. Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation argues that gender was a leading factor in this flourishing reformed culture of death. In a religious climate that placed increasing value on the …
Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation
Gender and Faith in England, 1550–1650
E-bok, 2026
1874 kr
Kommande
The period following the Reformation saw a rapid increase in the production of funeral monuments in England. Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation argues that gender was a leading factor in this flourishing reformed culture of death. In a religious climate that placed increasing value on the …
English Baroque in Early Modern Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1273 kr
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While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from British literary history. Instead of baroque, these critics prefer to use terms like metaphysical, Stuart, and Laudian terms that emphasise England's …
English Baroque in Early Modern Literature
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from British literary history. Instead of baroque, these critics prefer to use terms like metaphysical, Stuart, and Laudian—terms that emphasise England’s …
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
Inbunden, 2025
1378 kr
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Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. The vast majority of examples are penned by men; only a handful of texts by …
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
Häftad, 2026
313 kr
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Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. The vast majority of examples are penned by men; only a handful of texts by …
Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage
Av Peter Womack
Inbunden, 2025
1273 kr
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The sea for Shakespeare is both a location and a metaphor; and either way it affords him an extraordinary freedom of invention, releasing whatever in the plays is vast, fluid and unceasing. It is also a defining element of his historical context: he lived and worked a few yards from one of the …
Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage
Av Peter Womack
Häftad, 2026
283 kr
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The sea for Shakespeare is both a location and a metaphor; and either way it affords him an extraordinary freedom of invention, releasing whatever in the plays is vast, fluid and unceasing. It is also a defining element of his historical context: he lived and worked a few yards from one of the …
Shakespeare High and Low
Character, Audience, Career
Inbunden, 2025
2102 kr
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For many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeare's lofty reputation as the world's greatest playwright has turned him into an intimidating, even a forbidding figure. In Shakespeare High and Low, Jeffrey Knapp helps us to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays by restoring Shakespeare's own sense of …
