This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity - played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient Greek...
This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissa...
Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent 'green' criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature in this study. Avoiding the casting of 16th and 17-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues are formative concerns in many early modern texts.
Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent 'green' criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature in this...
In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that the popular English 'morality play' was a medieval vehicle for disseminating conservative religious doctrine.
In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that the popular English 'morality play' was a medieval vehicle for disseminating conservative rel...
This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic.
This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. The contributors address issues s...
This text explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period.
This text explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the e...
In the pre-modern world saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word 'patron' used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Alison Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period.
In the pre-modern world saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder ...
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the dream and dream-theory in texts and in social movements. In topics ranging from the dreams of animals to the visions of Elizabeth I, and from prophetic dreams to ghosts in political writing, this book asks what meanings early modern people found in dreams.
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and...
Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms of association were social productions of space as well as collective identities. Chapters explore a range of cultural activities such as theatre performances; travel and migration;...
Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public m...
In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers - rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest - sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding gender, sexuality, classical receptions, and the economic aspects of social relations in the early modern period. It points to new directions in the application of queer theory to Renaissance literature...
In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers...
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture. Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum of the...
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoana...
