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 |
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
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 |
Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.
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 |
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
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 |
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
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 |
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
Title | Renaissance Drama on the Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Hopkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2016-03-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317066588 |
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
Title | In Defiance of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Angus Vine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2010-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199566194 |
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.