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  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

    Redigeret af James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Serier serie Material Texts
    The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of ... Læs mere

    486,74 kr.

  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

    Redigeret af James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Serier serie Material Texts
    The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of ... Læs mere

    608,49 kr.

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  • A Critical Companion to John Skelton

    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... Læs mere

    141,49 kr.

  • The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... Læs mere

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  • The Reader in the Book

    A Study of Spaces and Traces

    af Stephen Orgel ...
    Serier serie Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of ... Læs mere

    188,57 kr.

  • The Elizabethan Top Ten

    Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England

    af Emma Smith ...
    Serier serie Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from ... Læs mere

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  • The Anatomy of Tudor Literature

    Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

    af Mike Pincombe ...
    Serier serie Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers, such as Thomas More, and then moves on to look at ... Læs mere

    278,85 kr.

  • Andrew Marvell

    A Literary Life

    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell’s life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable space is afforded to reflecting deeply on the modes and meanings of Marvell’s art, redressing the balance of recent biography and criticism which has ... Læs mere

    186,70 kr.

  • Elizabeth I

    The Competition for Representation

    af Susan Frye ...
    Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on ... Læs mere

    605,17 kr.

  • Didactic Literature in England 1500–1800

    Expertise Constructed

    af Sara Pennell ...
    Ranging from music to astronomy, gardening to the Bible, this essay collection is the first multi-disciplinary volume to examine a kind of text that was a staple of early modern English publishing: the how-to book. It tackles a wide range of subjects - grammars, music books, gardening manuals, teach-yourself book-keeping - while highlighting the commonalities of diverse texts as didactic works, ... Læs mere

    557,80 kr.

  • Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England

    Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England explores the dynamic between kingship and masculinity in fifteenth century England, with a particular focus on Henry V and Henry VI. The role of gender in the rhetoric and practice of medieval kingship is still largely unexplored by medieval historians. Discourses of masculinity informed much of the contemporary comment on fifteenth century kings, ... Læs mere

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  • News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

    Redigeret af Joad Raymond ...
    Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain:* What is the relationship between the circulation of news in Britain and ... Læs mere

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