Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England, Jennifer C. Vaught
Автор: Herman, Peter C. Название: Short history of early modern england ISBN: 1405195606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405195607 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12822.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature.
Автор: Vaught Название: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England ISBN: 1138268801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138268807 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.
Описание: This study discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women`s rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order.
Описание: Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study argues that Welsh texts and traditions crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity.
Автор: Porter Название: The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England ISBN: 1107662370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107662377 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.
Автор: Lund Название: Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England ISBN: 1107659965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107659964 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presenting a new literary approach to Robert Burton`s The Anatomy of Melancholy, this study demonstrates the work`s significance within early modern literary culture. Lund investigates the way in which Burton imagines and treats his reader, paying particular attention to his understanding of reading as a therapeutic process for melancholics.
Описание: To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the “theatrum mundi” topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God’s well-ordered world drama. Early modern dramatists often reacted to this development by appropriating the metaphor, and in an ingenious twist, some playwrights even appropriated its anti-theatrical impetus: Early modern theatre seemed to discover a denial of its own theatricality at its very core. Drama was found to succeed best when it staged itself as a great unmasking. To investigate the reasons and effects of these developments, the anthology examines the metaphorical uses of theatre in plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and other sources.
Автор: Perry Название: Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England ISBN: 0521117321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521117326 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using analysis of literary texts, this study examines the ideological underpinnings of the heated controversies surrounding powerful royal favorites and the idea of favoritism in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Perry introduces the reader to fresh ways of thinking about the prehistory of English republican thought.
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