Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton: Trouble in the Walled City

ISBN-13: 9780815363699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 170 str.

Adam N. McKeown

Opis

In this book, McKeown gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Walled Town and a Village  1. Walls of Stone and Walls of Bone in Shakespeare’s Histories  2. Spenser, the Fortress City, and the Plot for Ulster  3. The Walled City and the Colonization of North America: La Rochelle, Boston, Quebec  4. Paradise Lost and the Fortifications of Civil War London  Conclusion: The Connecticut Experiment

O autorze

Adam N. McKeown is an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. His research focuses on the intersections between textual, visual, and military culture in early modern England and early colonial New England. Shortly after receiving his PhD from New York University he was recalled to military service, and his experiences teaching Shakespeare to soldiers while on deployment have been featured on National Public Radio. He is the author of English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Age of Shakespeare (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009).