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  • Aemilia Lanyer

    Gender, Genre, and the Canon

    Edición de Marshall Grossman ...
    Series series Studies in the English Renaissance
    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 feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem "Salve Deus ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Reading Renaissance Ethics

    Edición de Marshall Grossman ...
    Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours.Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Seventeenth - Century Literature Handbook

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK“Never a dull read, Marshall Grossman’s elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and challenge his audience.”Thomas Corns, Bangor UniversityThe seventeenth century was a dramatic period in British history, witnessing two revolutions, huge constitutional change, the widening of the political and literary classes, and the gradual ... Leer más

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  • Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

    Edición de Jennifer Richards, Alison Thorne ...
    Rhetoric has long been a powerful and pervasive force in political and cultural life, yet in the early modern period, rhetorical training was generally reserved as a masculine privilege. This volume argues, however, that women found a variety of ways to represent their interests persuasively, and that by looking more closely at the importance of rhetoric for early modern women, and their ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

    Edición de Thomas N. Corns ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an ... Leer más

    $28.69 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Leer más

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  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    de Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Leer más

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  • Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature

    'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However, responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural ... Leer más

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  • The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

    Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden

    de Molly Murray ...
    Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This 2009 study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edición de Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Leer más

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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    de Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Leer más

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  • The Anatomy of Tudor Literature

    Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

    de Mike Pincombe ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers, such as Thomas More, and then moves on to look at ... Leer más

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