My First Booke of My Life

Alice Thornton

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woma... Lees meer

Separation Scenes

Ann C Christensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays--the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed... Lees meer

Travel and Travail

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious,... Lees meer

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Michelle M Dowd

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dra... Lees meer

Making the Marvelous

Rori Bloom

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-170... Lees meer

Courage and Grief

Mary Elizabeth Ailes

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden's involvement in Europe's destructive Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Focusing on the various r... Lees meer

Deza and Its Moriscos

Patrick J O'Banion

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Bainton Prize for History and Theology Honorable Mention Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a grow... Lees meer

Words Like Daggers

Kirilka Stavreva

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usu... Lees meer

Gentry Rhetoric

Daniel Ellis

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes' practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Dan... Lees meer

Words Like Daggers

Kirilka Stavreva

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cul... Lees meer

Producing Early Modern London

Kelly J Stage

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, ... Lees meer

Early Modern Trauma

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• The term trauma refers to a wound or rupture that disorients, causing suffering and fear. Trauma theory has been heavily shaped by responses to modern... Lees meer

Portrait of an Island

Mark Hinchman

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• The once-famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, ... Lees meer

Age in Love

Jacqueline Vanhoutte

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare's sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady... Lees meer

Sacred Seeds

Edward McLean Test

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the "discovery" of the Americas. Columbus... Lees meer

At the First Table

Jodi Campbell

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fastin... Lees meer

The Other Exchange

Denys Van Renen

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson's ... Lees meer