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Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama
The Other “Other”
Häftad, 2019
879 kr
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This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages …
Early Modern Constructions of Europe
Literature, Culture, History
Häftad, 2019
879 kr
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Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how …
Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Wonder, the Sacred, and the Supernatural
Häftad, 2019
879 kr
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This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary …
Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation
Reading through the Spirit
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation: Reading through the Spirit constructs a musical methodology for interpreting literary text drawn out of John Milton’s poetry and prose. Analyzing the linkage between music and the Holy Spirit in Milton’s work, it focuses on harmony and its relationship to …
Milton and the New Scientific Age
Poetry, Science, Fiction
Inbunden, 2019
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Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and …
Intricate Movements
Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser
Inbunden, 2019
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Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser shows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the …
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature
Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations
Av Simone Chess
Häftad, 2019
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This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long …
Guido Cavalcanti
Poet of the Rational Animal
Inbunden, 2020
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Guido Cavalcanti, Dante’s intellectual mentor, is widely considered among the greatest Italian lyric poets; his famous and notoriously difficult philosophical canzone Donna me prega is often characterized as the most studied lyric poem in Italian literature. This book situates Cavalcanti’s poetry …
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland
The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare
Av Jane Wong
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This …
Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
Häftad, 2019
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From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a …
Milton's Italy
Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England
Häftad, 2019
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This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate …
Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Readers and Audiences
Häftad, 2019
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This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the Advancement …
John Dryden and His Readers: 1700
Inbunden, 2019
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Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, …
Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature
Exploring Abraham Cowley
Av Philip Major
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from …
Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature
Av Dan Mills
Inbunden, 2020
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Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The present volume instead focuses on subjectivity in early modern English utopian writing by using these …
Women (Re)Writing Milton
Av Mandy Green, Sharihan Al-Akhras
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through …
Dante Alive
Essays on a Cultural Icon
Av Francesco Ciabattoni, Simone Marchesi
Inbunden, 2022
3156 kr
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The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. …
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy
Av Iman Sheeha
Inbunden, 2020
2888 kr
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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, …
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy
Av Iman Sheeha
Häftad, 2022
812 kr
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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, …
Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612
Inbunden, 2020
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This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern …
Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern …
Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England
Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640
Inbunden, 2021
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Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays …
Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of …
Early Modern Grotesque
English Sources and Documents 1500-1700
Av Liam Semler
Häftad, 2020
845 kr
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The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. …
Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse
Six Studies
Av A.D. Cousins
Häftad, 2020
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Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in …
Eros and Music in Early Modern Culture and Literature
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern love? The Early Moderns hold parallel discourses on the metaphysical doctrines of love and music as theories of harmony. Statements of love as music, of …
Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire
Purging Satire
Av Jay Simons
Häftad, 2020
845 kr
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Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own. These pressures were …
Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama
Enacting Family and Monarchy
Häftad, 2020
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English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifested as exegetical and performative strategies, these voices participate in the central Reformation project of biblical translation. Such translations and …
Women (Re)Writing Milton
Av Mandy Green, Sharihan Al-Akhras
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through …
From Narcissism to Nihilism
Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship.In early modern literature, there were expressions of …
