Early Modern Literature in History

Brown, C. C. (Ed), Hadfield, A. (Ed)

Within the period 1520-1740, this large, long-running series, with international representation discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures.  Editorial board members: Sharon Achinstein, University of Oxford, UK; John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge, UK; Richard C McCoy, Columbia University, USA; Jean Howard, Columbia University, USA; Adam Smyth, Birkbeck, University of London, UK; Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, UK; Michelle O'Callaghan, University of Reading, UK; Steven Zwicker, Washington University, USA; Katie Larson, University of Toronto, Canada   

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Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915 Book

Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915

Salzman, P. (2018)

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on …

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Thresholds of Translation Book

Thresholds of Translation

Belle, M. (Ed), Hosington, B. (Ed) (2018)

This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced …

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Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England Book

Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

Partner, J. (2018)

This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to …

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Reading Children in Early Modern Culture Book

Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

Lamb, E. (2018)

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.  It argues for the importance of reading to early …

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Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage Book

Turks, Repertories, and the Early Modern English Stage

Hutchings, M. (2017)

This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer …

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Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration Book

Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration

Pender, P. (Ed) (2017)

This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological …

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Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation Book

Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Mack, P. (2017)

This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write …

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Early Modern Women's Writing Book

Early Modern Women's Writing

van Elk, M. (2017)

This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new …

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Family Politics in Early Modern Literature Book

Family Politics in Early Modern Literature

Crawforth, H. (Ed), Lewis, S. (Ed) (2017)

This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. …

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The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England Book

The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England

Miller, K. (2016)

This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was …

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Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power Book

Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power

Rivère de Carles, N. (Ed) (2016)

This book explores the secret relations between theatre and diplomacy from the Tudors to the Treaty of Westphalia. It offers an original insight into the art of diplomacy in the …

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Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England Book

Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England

Bassnett, M. (2016)

This book is about the relationship of food and food practices to discourses and depictions of domestic and political governance in early modern women’s writing. It examines the …

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Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England Book

Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England

Decamp, E. (2016)

Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. …

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Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England Book

Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England

Tosh, W. (2016)

Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England reveals the complex and unfamiliar forms of friendship that existed between men in the late sixteenth century. …

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Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law Book

Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

Dunne, D. (2016)

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal …

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Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature Book

Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature

Stegner, P. D., Teichmann, () (2016)

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher …

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‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England: The Politics of Publication Book

‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England: The Politics of Publication

Price, E. (2015)

At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first …

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Writing the Ottomans Book

Writing the Ottomans

Ingram, A. (2015)

Histories of the Turks were a central means through which English authors engaged in intellectual and cultural terms with the Ottoman Empire, its advance into Europe following the …

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Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque Book

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque

Knowles, J. (2015)

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and …

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Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations Book

Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations

Simonova, N. (2015)

The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, …

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