Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature
Title Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature PDF eBook
Author Philip Schwyzer
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 240
Release 2007-02-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199206600

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Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Schwyzer demonstrates that archaeology can shed light on literary texts including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. The book also explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with the traces of past life.

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature
Title Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature PDF eBook
Author Stewart James Mottram
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 264
Release 2008
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843841827

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Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
Title The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature PDF eBook
Author Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 232
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Science
ISBN 1317040805

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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to man's triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674
Title Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674 PDF eBook
Author Lucy Munro
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2013-11-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1107042798

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Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
Title The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology PDF eBook
Author Helena Hamerow
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 1110
Release 2011-03-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199212147

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Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Renaissance Drama on the Edge
Title Renaissance Drama on the Edge PDF eBook
Author Lisa Hopkins
Publisher Routledge
Pages 200
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317066588

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Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

In Defiance of Time

In Defiance of Time
Title In Defiance of Time PDF eBook
Author Angus Vine
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 259
Release 2010-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 0199566194

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In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden.