Fortification And Its Discontents From Shakespeare To Milton

Author : Adam N. McKeown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351108492

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Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton by Adam N. McKeown Pdf

Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic provided an outlet for a wide range of humanistic fascinations with urban design, composition, and community organization, but it also promoted centrality of control and subordinated the human environment to military functionality. Examining William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Winthrop, and John Milton, this volume shows how the literature of England and New England explores and challenges the new walled city as England struggled to define the sprawling metropolis of London, translate English urban spaces into Ireland and North America, and, later, survive a long civil war.

Author : Catherine G. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429595509

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Milton in the New Scientific Age by Catherine G. Martin Pdf

Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and seventeenth-century studies, but they have previously not included the relatively new and revolutionary topic of early modern chemistry, physiology, and medicine. Previously this subject was confined to the history of science, with little if any attention to its literary development, even though it prominently appears in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which also includes early "science fiction" speculations on aliens ignored by most readers. Both of these oversights are corrected in this essay collection, while more traditional areas of research have been updated. They include Milton’s relationship both to Bacon and the later or Royal Society Baconians, his views on astronomy, and his "vitalist" views on biology and cosmology. In treating these topics, our contributors are not mired in speculations about whether or not Milton was on the cutting edge of early science or science fiction, for, as nearly all of them show, the idea of a "cutting edge" is deeply anachronistic at a time when most scientists and scientific enthusiasts held both fully modern and backward-looking beliefs. By treating these combinations contextually, Milton’s literary contributions to the "new science" are significantly clarified along with his many contemporary sources, all of which merit study in their own right.

Author : Jane Yeang Chui Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000011968

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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland by Jane Yeang Chui Wong Pdf

Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional change of the island from lordship to kingdom to the end of the conquest in 1603. The mounting impetus to bring Ireland to a "complete" conquest during these years has, quite naturally, led critics to associate England’s reform strategies with Irish Otherness. The preoccupation with this discourse of difference is also perceived as the "Irish Problem," a blanket term broadly used to describe just about every aspect of Irishness incompatible with the English imperialist ideologies. The term stresses everything that is "wrong" with the Irish nation—Ireland was a problem to be resolved. This book takes a different approach towards the "Irish Problem." Instead of rehashing the English government’s complaints of the recalcitrant Irish and the long struggle to impose royal authority in Ireland, I posit that the "Irish Problem" was very much shaped and developed by a larger "English Problem," namely English dissent within the English government. The discussions in this book focuse on the ways in which English writers articulated their knowledge and anxieties of the "English Problem" in sixteenth-century literary and historical narratives. This book reappraises the limitations of the "Irish Problem," and argues that the crown’s failure to control dissent within its own ranks was as detrimental to the conquest as the "Irish Problem," if not more so, and finally, it attempts to demonstrate how dissent translate into governance and conquest in early modern Ireland.

Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000712131

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Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature by Philip Major Pdf

Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley’s life and writings merit.

Author : A.D. Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429686429

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Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse by A.D. Cousins Pdf

Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in English Renaissance literature, there has been nothing written at length about its counterpart, namely, internal exile: marginalization, or estrangement, within the homeland. This volume considers internal exile as a simultaneously twofold experience. It studies estrangement from one’s society and, correlatively, from one’s normative sense of self. In doing so, it focuses initially on the sonnet sequences by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (which is to say, the problematics of romance); then it examines the verse satires of Donne, Hall, and Marston (likewise, the problematics of anti-romance). This book argues that the authors of these major texts create mythologies—via the myths of (and accumulated mythographies about) Cupid, satyrs, and Proteus—through which to reflect on the doubleness of exile within one’s own community. These mythologies, at times accompanied by theologies, of alienation suggest that internal exile is a fluid and complex experience demanding multifarious reinterpretation of the incongruously expatriate self. The monograph thus establishes a new framework for understanding texts at once diverse yet central to the Elizabethan literary achievement.

Author : Liam E Semler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429684784

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The Early Modern Grotesque by Liam E Semler Pdf

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.

Author : Anders Engberg-Pedersen,Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009059985

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War and Literary Studies by Anders Engberg-Pedersen,Neil Ramsey Pdf

War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429684203

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Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature by Sophie Chiari Pdf

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Stationers’ Company, and the Master of the Revels each dealt with their own prerogatives and implemented different forms of censorship, with the result that authors penning both plays and satires had to juggle with various authorities and unequal degrees of freedom from one sector to the other. Text and press control thus did not give way to systematic intervention but to particular responses adapted to specific texts in a specific time. If the restrictions imposed by regulation practices are duly acknowledged in this edited collection, the different contributors are also keen to enhance the positive impact of censorship on early modern literature. The most difficult task consists in finding the exact moment when the balance tips in favour of creativity, and the zone where, in matters of artistic freedom, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. This is what the twelve chapters of the volume proceed to do. Thanks to a wide variety of examples, they show that, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, regulations seldom prevented writers to make themselves heard, albeit through indirect channels. By contrast, in the 1630s, the increased supremacy of the Church seemed to tip the balance the other way.

Author : Bradley Davin Tuggle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429514500

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Intricate Movements by Bradley Davin Tuggle Pdf

Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser shows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the status of humans. The recent vogue for posthumanist theory encourages a view of non-human objects and animals in Renaissance literature as pathways to essentially anti-humanist thought. On the contrary, this book argues that Sidney, Spenser, and their contemporaries employ animals, earth, buildings, and fictions as analogies employed toward a better understanding of what makes humans a special category, both ontologically and ethically. Horses and riders are studied by Sidney as a way to understand readers and writers; the 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake provides Spenser and Gabriel Harvey an opportunity to explore human emotion; liturgical spaces are represented by Sidney and Spenser in order to reassess human community; and fictional persons are interrogated by Spenser as models for human interpersonal epistemology. This volume seeks to return critical assessments of the period's engagement with the non-human back to human concerns. Focusing on several early modern analogies between human and non-human entities, Intricate Movements argues Sidney's and Spenser's thinking about the human is both radically experimental and, ultimately, humane.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433074816475

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Natural History of Intellect by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Charles Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : English language
ISBN : ONB:+Z178873407

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A New Dictionary of the English Language by Charles Richardson Pdf

Author : T. Atkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074670

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Army & navy calendar by T. Atkins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNR3V7

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Army & Navy Calendar for 1882/83 - 1893/94 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1107057256

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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare by Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe Pdf

This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.