Book Description
Knoppers examines the domestic image of the royal family as a contested propaganda tool in the English Revolution and beyond.
Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107007887
Knoppers examines the domestic image of the royal family as a contested propaganda tool in the English Revolution and beyond.
Author : Ann Baynes Coiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139577115
Reading literary texts in their historical contexts has been the dominant form of interpretation in literary criticism for the past thirty years. This collection of essays reflects on the origins of historicism and its present usefulness as a mode of literary analysis, its limitations and its future. The volume provides a brief history of the practice from its Renaissance origins, offering examples of historicist work that not only demonstrate the continuing vitality of this methodology but also suggest new directions for research. Focusing on the major figures of Shakespeare and Milton, these essays provide important and concise representations of trends in the field. Designed for scholars and students of early modern English literature (1500–1700), the volume will also be of interest to students of literature more generally and to historians.
Author : Katie Kadue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022679749X
Introduction : the private labors of public men -- Rabelais in a pickle : fixing flux in Le quart livre -- Spenser's secret recipes : life support in The faerie queene -- Correcting Montaigne : agitation and care in the Essais -- Marvell in the meantime : preserving patriarchy in Upon Appleton House -- Milton's storehouses : tempering futures in Areopagitica, Paradise lost, and Paradise regain'd -- Conclusion : a woman's work is never done.
Author : Elizabeth Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1009223585
This first published book on Milton's masculinities exposes how Milton constructs the power-cultures of manhood in his most famous works.
Author : Laura L. Knoppers
Publisher : Milton Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820707013
Published annually as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton's life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton's work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton's influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work. Volume 57 includes 11 new essays by Paul Stevens, Raphael Magarik, Andrew S. Brown, Ayelet Langer, Charlotte Nicholls, Christopher Koester, John K. Hale, Alexandra Reider, Katherine Cox, Diana Trevio Benet, and Ryan Hackenbracht Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Author : Estelle Paranque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 3030223442
This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.
Author : J. Feather
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113734475X
During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.
Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0228004543
Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.
Author : Mandy Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000375811
This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.
Author : Lee Morrissey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009197126
Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradoxes, ambiguities, subversions and shifting temporalities than by any rigid historical periodization. The interpretations made possible by this book are as invaluable as they are counterintuitive, opening new definitions and stimulating avenues of research for Milton students and specialists, as well as for those working in the broader field of early modern studies. Morrissey invites us to rethink where Milton stands in relation to the greatest products of modernity, and in particular to that most modern of genres, the novel.