Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the t... Lees meer

This Double Voice

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• "The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women wr... Lees meer

Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play

D Cavanagh

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat prese... Lees meer

Eros and the Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI

S Dunnigan

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encom... Lees meer

Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture

T Döring

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• 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 c... Lees meer

Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

M Wynne-Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendi... Lees meer

Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• 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... Lees meer

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature

Abe Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• 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 ... Lees meer

Old St Paul's and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Old St Paul's and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul's and its wider precinct... Lees meer

The Early Modern Medea

K Heavey

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway ove... Lees meer

Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses ... Lees meer

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621

R Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers... Lees meer

Betraying Our Selves

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith

J Mayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem ... Lees meer

Writing Early Modern London

A Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously... Lees meer

Shakespeare and Carnival

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the... Lees meer

Re-Imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

M Matei-Chesnoiu

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theat... Lees meer

Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare's England

Will Tosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare's England reveals the complex and unfamiliar forms of friendship that existed between men in th... Lees meer

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the t... Lees meer

Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

John M Adrian

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• 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 examin... Lees meer

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• 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... Lees meer

Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse

E Heale

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• The advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speake... Lees meer

Writing Early Modern London

A Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously... Lees meer

English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

Barbara Ravelhofer

• Paperback | Engels | Early Modern Literature in History
• Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection... Lees meer