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Body in Mystery
The Political Theology of the 'Corpus Mysticum' in the Literature of Reformation England
Inbunden, 2013
1053 kr
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In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust engages the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far longer afterlife than has been previously assumed. Reviving a …
Faithful Translators
Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2013
1053 kr
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With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their …
Architectural Involutions
Writing, Staging, and Building Space, C. 1435-1650
Av Mimi Yiu
Inbunden, 2015
1060 kr
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Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English …
Violence and Grace
Exceptional Life Between Shakespeare and Modernity
Inbunden, 2014
1058 kr
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In Violence and Grace, Nichole Miller establishes a conceptual link between early modern English drama and twentieth-century political theology, both of whichemerge from the experience of political crisis. Even as philosophers from Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Walter Benjamin to Hannah Arendt and …
How Do I Know Thee?
Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2015
1315 kr
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The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical …
How Do I Know Thee?
Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Häftad, 2015
419 kr
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The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical …
Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies
Law and Distributed Selfhood
Av Kevin Curran
Inbunden, 2017
1315 kr
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Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies offers the first sustained examination of the relationship between law and selfhood in Shakespeare's work. Taking five plays and the sonnets as case studies, Kevin Curran argues that law provided Shakespeare with the conceptual resources to imagine selfhood in social …
Milton's Modernities
Poetry, Philosophy, and History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Av Feisal G. Mohamed, Patrick Fadely m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1315 kr
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The phrase ""early modern"" challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. Milton's Modernities is a collection of eleven original essays undertaking such exploration with a focus on John Milton, a poet whose prodigious …
Reveries of Community
French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572-1616
Häftad, 2017
445 kr
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Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics France …
Reveries of Community
French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572-1616
Inbunden, 2017
1315 kr
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Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics France …
Emotion in the Tudor Court
Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling
Inbunden, 2018
1315 kr
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Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that …
Violence and Grace
Exceptional Life Between Shakespeare and Modernity
Häftad, 2018
445 kr
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In Violence and Grace, Nichole Miller establishes a conceptual link between early modern English drama and twentieth-century political theology, both of which emerge from the experience of political crisis. Even as philosophers from Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Walter Benjamin to Hannah Arendt and …
Written World
Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France
Inbunden, 2018
1315 kr
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In The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of chora, a concept developed by Plato in …
Tragedy and the Return of the Dead
Häftad, 2018
510 kr
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Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the …
Tragedy and the Return of the Dead
Inbunden, 2018
1315 kr
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Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would probably have been unrecognizable to the …
Feeling Faint
Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance
Häftad, 2019
445 kr
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Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person …
Feeling Faint
Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2019
1315 kr
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Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person …
Absolutist Attachments
Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France
Av Chloé Hogg
Häftad, 2019
445 kr
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In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism's feeling subjects and publics.Louis …
Absolutist Attachments
Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France
Av Chloé Hogg
Inbunden, 2019
1320 kr
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In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism's feeling subjects and publics.Louis …
Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare
Av Katherine Steele Brokaw, Jason Zysk
Inbunden, 2019
1315 kr
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The term “secular” inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a …
Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare
Av Katherine Steele Brokaw, Jason Zysk
Häftad, 2019
510 kr
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The term “secular” inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a …
Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare
Av Christopher Pye, Christopher Pye
Häftad, 2020
449 kr
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This book examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience. From the 1980s, the turn to political concerns in Renaissance studies was dictated by forms of …
Political Aesthetics in the Era of Shakespeare
Av Christopher Pye, Christopher Pye
Inbunden, 2020
1315 kr
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This book examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience. From the 1980s, the turn to political concerns in Renaissance studies was dictated by forms of …
Philosopher's Toothache
Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama
Häftad, 2021
477 kr
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The Philosopher’s Toothache proposes that early modern Stoicism constituted a radical mode of performance. Stoicism—with its focus on bodily sensation, imagined spectatorship, and daily mental and physical exercise—exists as what the philosopher Pierre Hadot calls a “way of life,” a set of habits …
Subjects of Affection
Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to …
Subjects of Affection
Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
Inbunden, 2021
1177 kr
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Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that the right of resistance, largely thought to …
Queer Velocities
Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage
Häftad, 2022
477 kr
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Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly …
Economies of Praise
Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry
Av Ryan Netzley
Inbunden, 2024
849 kr
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Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivityEarly modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a purpose or enact real labor beyond their effortless listing of laudable qualities. And yet the poets …
Milton's Moving Bodies
Av Marissa Greenberg, Rachel Trubowitz
Inbunden, 2024
785 kr
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A collection of innovative examinations of embodiment in Milton’s oeuvre that challenge assumptions about disciplinary boundaries This volume brings unprecedented focus to the forms, spaces, and implications of embodied motion in Milton’s writing and its afterlives to explore how and why he …
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism
Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France
Inbunden, 2025
785 kr
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Drawing on early modern French thought to free nature and aesthetics from metaphysical humanism What good is aesthetics in an age of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France draws on deconstructive, ecological, and biopolitical …
