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Shakespeare And The Poetics And Politics Of Relevance

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 Four years on from George Floydâ€™s murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevantâ€"whether in performance, in the classroom, or in scholarshipâ€"to the pressing issues of social and climate justice.
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Performing Factuality In John Duntonâ€™S Athenian Cosmos - The Rites Of Truth

by Jaroslaw Jasenowski

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 Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility.
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British Encounters With Ottoman Minorities In The Early Seventeenth Century - Â€˜Slavesâ€™ Of The Sultan

by Eva Johanna Holmberg

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 British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as â€˜slaves of the sultanâ€™, yet they also made fine distinctions between them.
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Publicity And The Early Modern Stage - People Made Public

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 Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.
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Publicity And The Early Modern Stage - People Made Public

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 Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.
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Queer Milton

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 Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Leveraging insights from recent queer work and related fields, contributions demonstrate diverse possible futures for Queer Milton Studies.
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Stupid Humanism - Folly As Competence In Early Modern And Twenty-First-Century Culture

by Christine Hoffmann

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 This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance.
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Memories Of War In Early Modern England - Armor And Militant Nostalgia In Marlowe, Sidney, And Shakespeare

by Susan Harlan

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 Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of â€œspoilingâ€ â€" or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle â€" provides a way of thinking about Englandâ€™s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance.
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Queer Milton

~~162,21€~~ 113,55€ 30% OFF

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 Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Leveraging insights from recent queer work and related fields, contributions demonstrate diverse possible futures for Queer Milton Studies.
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Stupid Humanism - Folly As Competence In Early Modern And Twenty-First-Century Culture

by Christine Hoffmann

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 This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance.
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Plotting Motherhood In Medieval, Early Modern, And Modern Literature

by Mary Beth Rose

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 The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot.
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Islam And Early Modern English Literature - The Politics Of Romance From Spenser To Milton

by Benedict S. Robinson

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 This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity.
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Love In Print In The Sixteenth Century - The Popularization Of Romance

by I. Moulton

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 Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today.
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Remapping The Mediterranean World In Early Modern English Writings

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 The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries.
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Milton Now - Alternative Approaches And Contexts

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 By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
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Constructions Of Female Homoeroticism In Early Modern Drama

by D. Walen

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 This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660.
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The Figure Of The Crowd In Early Modern London - The City And Its Double

by I. Munro

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 The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis.
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Prose Fiction And Early Modern Sexuality,1570-1640

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 Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality, 1570-1640 brings together twelve new essays which situate the arguments about the multiple constructions of sexualities in prose fiction within contemporary critical debates about the body, gender, desire, print culture, postcoloniality, and cultural geography.
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Manhood And The Duel - Masculinity In Early Modern Drama And Culture

by J. Low

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 As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the aggression inherent in single combat, masculinity could be understood in spatial terms, social terms, or developmental terms.
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Burning Women - Widows, Witches, And Early Modern European Travelers In India

by P. Banerjee

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 In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology.
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Women Writers And Public Debate In 17th-Century Britain

by C. Gray

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 This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.
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Money And The Age Of Shakespeare: Essays In New Economic Criticism - Essays In New Economic Criticism

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 In this collection literary scholars, theorists and historians deploy new economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, and from early bodily-injury insurance schemes to The Merchant of Venice .
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Reformations Of The Body - Idolatry, Sacrifice, And Early Modern Theater

by J. Waldron

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 This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
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Violence, Politics, And Gender In Early Modern England

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 This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England.
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