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Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825091
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambitionIn Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful...
Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée
Zachary Lesser
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826081
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but...
The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early...
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Katherine Eggert
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224856
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state...
Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton
Thomas Fulton
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252668
Pub Date: February 2021
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing....
Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England
Megan Heffernan
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812252804
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media...
The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Edited by Kristen Poole and Owen Williams
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812251524
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Early Modern Histories of Time examines how a range of chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and explores...
In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While counsel was an important form of practical knowledge,...
Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling explores the mutually generative relationship between post-Reformation religious life and London's commercial theaters. It explores the dynamic exchange between the imaginatively...
Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635
Megan L. Cook
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9780812250824
Pub Date: April 2019
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and they...
