Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
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An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-02
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Drama and the Bible
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Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-27
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley
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Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Women in Conversation
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In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-02
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama
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Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-31
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680
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Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
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This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
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Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-08
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-24
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare and Religious Change
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This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-07-16
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Quoting Death in Early Modern England
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An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-17
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre
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This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-13
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Religions of the Book
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This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book' interacted. The collection illuminates this area of European culture...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-04-03
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  English Historical Drama, 1500-1660
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Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between 1500 and 1660, covering a wide range of different formats. An...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-04
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England
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This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-11
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance
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This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-08-24
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Sensations in Early Modern England
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How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This book argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-04-06
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650
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This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-11-02
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith
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This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-08-04
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture
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This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-07-11
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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