Material London, Ca. 1600

• Paperback | Engels | New Cultural Studies
• Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550... Lees meer

Warm Brothers

Robert Tobin

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• In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in oth... Lees meer

Shakespeare Trade

Barbara Hodgdon

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• In these provocative case studies, Barbara Hodgdon examines not only how Shakespeare's plays are staged and restaged by readers and critics as well as... Lees meer

Holy Wednesday

Louise M Burkhart

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• Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday , Louise ... Lees meer

Perennial Decay

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• When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the Engl... Lees meer

Postmodern Apocalypse

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• From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestsell... Lees meer

Investing with Meaning

Shannon Miller

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• In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Irel... Lees meer

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

Karma Lochrie

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• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rathe... Lees meer

Being Interior

Nicholas D Paige

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• The familiar classical France of splendor, formalism, and conquest had a hidden double, one ruled by the cultural imperative to "be interior," to look... Lees meer

The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750

Robert A Erickson

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• In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a ... Lees meer

The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain

Barbara J Eckstein

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• This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting , J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life ... Lees meer

Novel Possibilities

Joseph W Childers

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• Joseph Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby , Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton , and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke were... Lees meer

Ravishing Maidens

Kathryn Gravdal

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• In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyz... Lees meer

Culture and Adultery

Barbara Leckie

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• Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adultery--indeed, of a... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies

Natasha Korda

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• Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating... Lees meer

Early Modern Visual Culture

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• An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the vi... Lees meer

Cultural Politics--Queer Reading

Alan Sinfield

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• Was Shakespeare gay? Is The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic? How does mainstream reading differ from that of subcultural groups? In this lively and re... Lees meer

The Complexion of Race

Roxann Wheeler

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• The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigation ... Lees meer

Anna of Denmark, Queen of England

Leeds Barroll

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• In the well-entrenched critical view of the Jacobean period, James I is credited with the flowering of culture in the early years of the seventeenth c... Lees meer

Writing the Image After Roland Barthes

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• In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once... Lees meer

Stage-Wrights

Paul Yachnin

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• To many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who ... Lees meer

Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

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• It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to ... Lees meer

Body, Self, and Society

Anne E Becker

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• Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relati... Lees meer

Ellen Terry

Nina Auerbach

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• Nina Auerbach brilliantly reveals the Ellen Terry whose roles, on stage and off, embodied everything that a rapidly changing world exhorted women to b... Lees meer