Studies in the English Renaissance – serie
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9 produkter
Changing The Subject
Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England
Av Naomi Miller
Inbunden, 1996
590 kr
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Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth met with disgrace at court for her …
Miltonic Moment
Inbunden, 1998
595 kr
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Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment of crisis that takes place just before the action undergoes a dramatic change of course. Such instants look backward to a past that is about to be superseded or repudiated and forward, at the same time, to a future that will …
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
Inbunden, 1998
595 kr
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Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she …
Worldmaking Spenser
Explorations in the Early Modern Age
Av Patrick Cheney, Lauren Silberman
Häftad, 2014
494 kr
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Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, …
Unfolding God of Jung and Milton
Häftad, 2014
511 kr
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In this first extensive Jungian treatment of Milton's major poems, James P. Driscoll uses archetypal psychology to explore Milton's great themes of God, man, woman, and evil and offers readers deepened understanding of Jung's profound thoughts on Godhead. The Father, the Son, Satan, Messiah, …
Allegorical Poetics and the Epic
The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study, Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry, and especially the epic from antiquity to the …
John Milton
The Self and the World
Häftad, 2001
531 kr
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The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton -- the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings? John Shawcross's "different" biography depicts the man against a psychological backdrop that brings …
Darke Hierogliphicks
Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration
Häftad, 2008
595 kr
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The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth …
Aemilia Lanyer
Gender, Genre, and the Canon
Häftad, 2009
500 kr
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Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems.Using standard genres to address distinctly …
