Early Modern Others

ISBN-13: 9781032293684 / Twarda / 2023 / 158 str.

Peter C. Herman

Opis

Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny, racism, atheism, and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicising early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts, Peter C. Herman explores how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Thomas More’s Utopia and the "New World"

Chapter 2: "I am no child, no babe": The Shrew Plays

Chapter 3: "That’s More than We Know": The Crisis of the 1590s in Deloney, Dekker, and Shakespeare

Chapter 4: The Circulation of Atheism in Early Modern England: Tamburlaine, Selimus, and King Lear

Chapter 5: The Religious "Other" in Early Modern England: The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice, and The Renegado

Chapter 6: Othello and London’s Africans

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English Literature at San Diego State University. He is the author of Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 (2020), Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and the Poetics of Incertitude (2005), and Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (2010), among other books.