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Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan
Av R.V. Young
Inbunden, 2000
1432 kr
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English devotional poets of 17c set in a wider European and Catholic context.This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on four major poets, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw. It …
Neo-Historicism
Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics
Av Robin Headlam Wells, Robin Headlam Wells m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1507 kr
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Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.For nearly two decades, Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various forms of postmodern criticism which claim to expose the simplistic methodology of `traditional' criticism and to …
Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature: Kisses of Their Mouths
Av Noam Flinker
Inbunden, 2000
1432 kr
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Treatment of and reference to the Song of Songs by a variety of authors including Spenser and Milton.Many English Renaissance texts offer readings of the Song of Songs, by both well-known authors, such as Shakespeare, and the long neglected (William Baldwin, Robert Aylett, Abiezer Coppe and …
Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes
Inbunden, 2001
1432 kr
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Ambiguity, present in all aspects of the poem, is seen as central to Milton's authorial intentions.Shawcross proposes that the many ambiguities surrounding Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes are intentional: the actual words, the dates of composition, the genre, and the characters - …
Theology of John Donne
Häftad, 1999
383 kr
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John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology.John Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the evidence for the distinguishing features of his theology is drawn primarily from his extant sermons studied in …
Milton and the Terms of Liberty
Inbunden, 2002
1432 kr
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Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime.In his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three …
Shakespeare and Machiavelli
Av John Roe
Inbunden, 2002
1432 kr
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A detailed comparison of Machiavelli with Shakespeare, grounded in their common use of rhetoric.Although the question of Machiavellian influence on Shakespeare has been thoroughly debated, this book represents the first attempt to compare the two authors in detail. The playwright and the political …
Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
Av Alex Davis
Inbunden, 2003
1493 kr
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A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval.Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in …
John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit
Av Jeanne Shami
Inbunden, 2003
1507 kr
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The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25.This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons …
Making of Restoration Poetry
Av Paul Hammond
Inbunden, 2006
1432 kr
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A survey of Restoration poetry, from the forms in which it was disseminated to studies of important texts.This book explores the complex ways in which authors, publishers, and readers contributed to the making of Restoration poetry. The essays in Part I map some principal aspects of Restoration …
Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser
Inbunden, 2006
1507 kr
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An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene.This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores …
Spenser's Legal Language
Law and Poetry in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2007
1507 kr
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Highlights Spenser's use of legal thought and language, resulting in new insights into his work.Both English language and English political life underwent unprecedented change in the sixteenth century, creating acute linguistic and legal crises that, in Elizabeth I's later years, intersected in the …
English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2009
982 kr
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A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes …
Renaissance Historical Fiction
Sidney, Deloney, Nashe
Av Alex Davis
Inbunden, 2011
1493 kr
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First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past in their prose fiction.Davis's study could scarcely be more timely or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary. Williamsburg VAA majority of the fiction composed in England in the second half of the sixteenth century …
Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England
Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English
Inbunden, 2012
1419 kr
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The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image.Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and …
Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1493 kr
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An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the …
English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare
Häftad, 2013
345 kr
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A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes …
Wyatt Abroad
Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power
Inbunden, 2014
1493 kr
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An examination of Wyatt's translations and adaptions of European poetry yields fresh insights into his work and poetic practice.During the 1520s and 1530s Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet and diplomat, composed a number of translations and adaptations of European poetry (including the Penitential Psalms …
Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought
Av Elizabeth S. Dodd, Cassandra Gorman
Inbunden, 2016
1419 kr
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New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical readings of the poet.Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of the period. The essays collected here take issue …
Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe
From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers
Av Alex Wong
Inbunden, 2017
1957 kr
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The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development.There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary conventions of the kiss were closely related …
George Lauder (1603-1670): Life and Writings
Inbunden, 2018
1957 kr
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First full study and edition of the works of George Lauder, "the poet whom Scotland forgot".The Scottish poet George Lauder began as a "university wit", by imitating anti-papal satires popular in the Italian Renaissance. He set off for London as a young man, looking for patronage, but instead …
Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval
Inbunden, 2018
1507 kr
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A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for the Middle English literary lenses …
Prodigality in Early Modern Drama
Av Ezra Horbury
Inbunden, 2019
514 kr
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Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher.Why is it bad to spend too much money? In early modern England, the concept of prodigality governed all forms of financial excess and misuse, from gambling away your family …
Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives
Av Andrew McRae, Philip Schwyzer
Inbunden, 2020
1507 kr
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First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment.Poly-Olbion (1612-1622), the collaborative work of the poet Michael Drayton, the legal scholar John Selden, and the engraver William Hole, ranks among the most remarkable literary …
Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions.Early modern English writing about pity evidences a social culture built specifically around emotion, …
Atom in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Inbunden, 2021
1493 kr
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An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century.The early modern "atom" – understood as an indivisible particle of matter – captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond the reception of Lucretius and …
John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
1736 kr
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The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the early modern period.John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), the eldest son of Flemish migrants, was a man …
Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England
Strange Histories
Inbunden, 2024
973 kr
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Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'.Themes and motifs from the Middle Ages are found across the drama, poetry, prose fiction, polemic, and satire of the later …
Localizing Christopher Marlowe
His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575-1593
Av Arata Ide
Inbunden, 2023
1789 kr
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This study punctures the stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, first created by his rival Robert Greene, and, yet, which still colour our view. In doing so, Ide reveals the social and cultural discourses out of which such myths emerged.We know next to nothing about the life of the playwright …
Collected Works of Thomas Kyd
Volume One
Inbunden, 2024
2384 kr
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First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution.Thomas Kyd (1558-94) is best known as author of The Spanish Tragedy, the first revenge play, …
