Early Modern Literature in History

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

Within the period 1520–1740, this large, very well-established series with notable 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. This series is approaching a hundred titles on a variety of subjects including early modern women’s writing; domestic politics; drama, performance and playhouses; rhetoric; religious conversion; translation; travel and colonial writing; popular culture; the law; authorship; diplomacy; the court; material culture; childhood; piracy; and the environment.

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Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800 Book

Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

Chiari, S. (Ed), Cuisinier-Delorme, S. (Ed) (2021)

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who …

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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature Book

Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature

Davies, A. (2021)

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, …

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Early Modern Intertextuality Book

Early Modern Intertextuality

Carter, S. (2021)

This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised …

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Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time Book

Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time

Knutson, R. L. (Ed), McInnis, D. (Ed), Steggle, M. (Ed) (2020)

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, …

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Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe Book

Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe

Chovanec, K. (2020)

This book offers the first full study of the challenges posed to an emerging English nationalism that stemmed from the powerful appeal exerted by the leaders of the international …

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Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama Book

Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama

Baird, C. (2020)

This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most …

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Early Modern Women's Complaint Book

Early Modern Women's Complaint

Ross, S. C. E. (Ed), Smith, R. (Ed) (2020)

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this …

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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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Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England Book

Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England

Shinn, A. (2018)

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct …

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Thresholds of Translation Book

Thresholds of Translation

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