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Warning For Fair Women - Adultery And Murder In Shakespeare'S Theater

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 This critical edition introduces new audiences to A Warning for Fair Women, an important but neglected work of Elizabethan drama.
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Early Modern Trauma - Europe And The Atlantic World

62,94€ + 10% CARD

 This edited collection explores what trauma-seen through an analytical lens-can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.
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Making The Marvelous - Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie De Murat, And The Literary Representation Of The Decorative Arts

by Rori Bloom

70,30€ + 10% CARD

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 Rori Bloom demonstrates that Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670-1716) changed the stakes of the fairy tale: instead of inviting their readers to marvel at the magic that changes rags to riches, they enjoined them to acknowledge the skill that transforms raw materials into beautifully made works of art.
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Misanthropoetics - Social Flight And Literary Form In Early Modern England

by Robert Darcy

55,21€ + 10% CARD

 Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life. In Shakespeares England a burgeoning urban population and the codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. This figure of disillusionment became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship and family against prudent economies, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language.Misanthropoetics chronicles the periods own excoriating critique of the illusion of resolution fostered within a social world beleaguered by myriad pressures and demands. This study interrogates form as a means not toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting and declaring the social function of life as inherently incongruous. Robert Darcy applies questions of phenomenology and psychoanalysis, deconstruction and chaos theory to observe how the great deployers of literary form lost confidence that it could adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried desperately to shape and preserve it.
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Deza And Its Moriscos - Religion And Community In Early Modern Spain

by Patrick J. O'Banion

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 Deza and Its Moriscos reframes historiographical debates about the so-called Morisco problem, a defining crisis for early modern Spain, by focusing on the lives and local context of a community that experienced it.
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Misanthropoetics - Social Flight And Literary Form In Early Modern England

by Robert Darcy

55,21€ + 10% CARD

 Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life. In Shakespeares England a burgeoning urban population and the codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. This figure of disillusionment became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship and family against prudent economies, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language.Misanthropoetics chronicles the periods own excoriating critique of the illusion of resolution fostered within a social world beleaguered by myriad pressures and demands. This study interrogates form as a means not toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting and declaring the social function of life as inherently incongruous. Robert Darcy applies questions of phenomenology and psychoanalysis, deconstruction and chaos theory to observe how the great deployers of literary form lost confidence that it could adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried desperately to shape and preserve it.
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Age In Love - Shakespeare And The Elizabethan Court

by Jacqueline Vanhoutte

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare's sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, â€œvainlyâ€ performs the role of â€œsome untutor'd youth.â€ Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of â€œage in loveâ€ pervades Shakespeare's mature works.
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Age In Love - Shakespeare And The Elizabethan Court

by Jacqueline Vanhoutte

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare's sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, â€œvainlyâ€ performs the role of â€œsome untutor'd youth.â€ Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of â€œage in loveâ€ pervades Shakespeare's mature works.
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Sacred Seeds - New World Plants In Early Modern English Literature

by Edward Mclean Test

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 Examines New World plants - tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum, and the prickly pear cactus - and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Edward McLean Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative cultural history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity.
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Travel And Travail - Early Modern Women, English Drama, And The Wider World

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 Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.
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Producing Early Modern London - A Comedy Of Urban Space, 1598-1616

by Kelly J. Stage

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theaters use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of city comedy or citizen comedy have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the city comedy, comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of Londons social space exceeded the strict confines of the square mile, the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected-a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue-and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity.
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Courage And Grief - Women And Sweden'S Thirty Years' War

by Mary Elizabeth Ailes

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 Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Swedens involvement in Europes destructive Thirty Years War (161848). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were changing in profound ways. This study considers the experiences of unmarried camp followers and officers wives as well as peasant women who remained in the countryside during times of conflict and upheaval. Women contributed to the war effort in a variety of ways. On campaign they provided support services to armies in the field. On the home front they helped to minimize disruptions incurred within their frayed communities. As increasing numbers of men left to fight overseas, women took over local economic activities and defended their families interests. Such activities significantly altered the fabric of Swedish society. Examining womens wartime experiences in the Thirty Years War enhances our understanding of womens roles in society, the nature of female power and authority, and the opportunities and hardships that warfare brought to womens lives.
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Other Exchange - Women, Servants, And The Urban Underclass In Early Modern English Literature

by Denys Van Renen

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 Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonsons The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renens The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged in opposition to the lived and perceived abuses of the aristocratic elite but also was fostered by the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities. Van Renen contends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors and playwrights in the early modern era-Ben Jonson, Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe-featured lower-class men and women and other marginalized groups in their work as a response to the shifting political and social terrain of the day. Van Renen illuminates this fascination with marginalized groups as a key element in the development of a middle-class mindset.
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Separation Scenes - Domestic Drama In Early Modern England

by Ann C. Christensen

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 This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms â€œthe tragedy of the separate spheresâ€. Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England.
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At The First Table - Food And Social Identity In Early Modern Spain

by Jodi Campbell

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 Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of social identity.
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Separation Scenes - Domestic Drama In Early Modern England

by Ann C. Christensen

50,79€ + 10% CARD

 This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms â€œthe tragedy of the separate spheresâ€. Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England.
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At The First Table - Food And Social Identity In Early Modern Spain

by Jodi Campbell

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of social identity.
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Words Like Daggers - Violent Female Speech In Early Modern England

by Kirilka Stavreva

20,96€ + 10% CARD

 Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. By examining the framing and performance of such violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England. Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers highlights the capacity of womens language to shape gender and social relationships in the early modern era. Stavreva not only reconstructs the speech acts of individual contentious women but also examines the powerful performative potential of womens violent speech, revealing how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance, orchestrated and aestheticized womens fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance.
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Portrait Of An Island - The Architecture And Material Culture Of Goree, Senegal, 1758-1837

by Mark Hinchman

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 A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.
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Other Exchange - Women, Servants, And The Urban Underclass In Early Modern English Literature

by Denys Van Renen

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonsons The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renens The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged in opposition to the lived and perceived abuses of the aristocratic elite but also was fostered by the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities. Van Renen contends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors and playwrights in the early modern era-Ben Jonson, Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe-featured lower-class men and women and other marginalized groups in their work as a response to the shifting political and social terrain of the day. Van Renen illuminates this fascination with marginalized groups as a key element in the development of a middle-class mindset.
ENGLISH

Courage And Grief - Women And Sweden'S Thirty Years' War

by Mary Elizabeth Ailes

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Swedens involvement in Europes destructive Thirty Years War (161848). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were changing in profound ways. This study considers the experiences of unmarried camp followers and officers wives as well as peasant women who remained in the countryside during times of conflict and upheaval. Women contributed to the war effort in a variety of ways. On campaign they provided support services to armies in the field. On the home front they helped to minimize disruptions incurred within their frayed communities. As increasing numbers of men left to fight overseas, women took over local economic activities and defended their families interests. Such activities significantly altered the fabric of Swedish society. Examining womens wartime experiences in the Thirty Years War enhances our understanding of womens roles in society, the nature of female power and authority, and the opportunities and hardships that warfare brought to womens lives.
ENGLISH

Producing Early Modern London - A Comedy Of Urban Space, 1598-1616

by Kelly J. Stage

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theaters use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of city comedy or citizen comedy have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the city comedy, comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of Londons social space exceeded the strict confines of the square mile, the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected-a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue-and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity.
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My First Booke Of My Life

by Alice Thornton

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 An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, this book depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.
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Travel And Travail - Early Modern Women, English Drama, And The Wider World

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.
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