Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

This is the first full-length study to consider railing plays and pamphlets as a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. Where previous scholarship has examined railing texts in isolation from each other, ..

Taking as its focus a neglected and scattered archive of plays printed in English before the establishment of successful commercial playhouses, this study shows how, for the first time, plays were treated as books to be read, rather than just as records of performance. In doing so, it charts the eme..

Kate Loveman explores the ways in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century reading habits were applied to and shaped genres. Examining works by authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, she recovers a lost critical discourse through which authors and readers interrogated, mocked, and e..

Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticultural grafting and herbal health care, this book offers a cultural history of a color. It mines many pages from the period - not literally but tropically, metaphorically green - that cultivate a variety of unexpected meanings ..

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the pr..

Exemplifying important trends in the study of literary reception, comparative religion and the global dimensions of early modern culture, this collection reveals how East-West relations are woven into the texture of John Milton’s great works. It was first published as a special issue of English Stud..

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. This book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies...

Juxtaposing two approaches to Renaissance literature, the 'religious turn' and the 'archipelagic turn', Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature engages these two ways of interpreting early modern writing in a coherent dialogue. In its deliberate synthesis of these critical perspectives, ..

Juxtaposing two approaches to Renaissance literature, the 'religious turn' and the 'archipelagic turn', Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature engages these two ways of interpreting early modern writing in a coherent dialogue. In its deliberate synthesis of these critical perspectives, ..

Reassessing the relationship between religion and drama in early modern England, this collection explores the commercial theater's reframing of religious culture. Essays foreground the material conditions of performance, the resonances between theatrical and religious rituals, and the multiple valen..

Reassessing the relationship between religion and drama in early modern England, this collection explores the commercial theater's reframing of religious culture. Essays foreground the material conditions of performance, the resonances between theatrical and religious rituals, and the multiple valen..

This unique volume of plays and documents demonstrates for the first time the wide range of theatrical activity in which women were involved during the Renaissance period. This is a true breakthrough for the study of women's literature...