Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion
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Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare’s engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. For playhouse audiences during the period, conversional...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-17
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England
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The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. Faith in the Language examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-03-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of China in Early Modern England
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The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-01
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Old St Paul's and Culture
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Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture ofOld St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral’s medieval...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-01
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature
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This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
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This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-31
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama
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This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-24
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Women's Complaint
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This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-23
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time
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As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary culture is...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-26
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe
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This book offers the first full study of the challenges posed to an emerging English nationalism that stemmed from the powerful appeal exerted by the leaders of the international Protestant cause. By considering a range of texts, including poetry, plays, pamphlets, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-19
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England
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This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-04
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Thresholds of Translation
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This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-28
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915
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This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-03
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
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This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-09
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage
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This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-01
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Children in Early Modern Culture
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This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.  It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-09
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration
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This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas.  How does conceiving women’s texts as collaborations between authors, readers,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-10
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation
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This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or categories for interpreting one’s reading. The first chapter presents...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-20
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England
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This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague.This book examines the role of print and manuscript...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-07-06
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Women's Writing
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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-09
Collection : Early Modern Literature in History
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