Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

Book SynopsisThis volume aims to advance the analysis about Amerigo Vespucci by considering and connecting several fields of study such as literary history, philology, the history of science and cartography, economic history, and the history of ideas. The multifaceted research frames guide the reader through the complex vicissitudes of Amerigo Vespucci's life. The receptions and implications explore the intense cultural and historical dynamics that shaped the decades between the end of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century.Table of ContentsApproaches from literary history – Philology – The history of science and ideas – The history of the European expansion and cartography – Economic history are combined – Casting new light on the multiple shores of Amerigo Vespucci

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Book SynopsisThe book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone literatures, critical theory, cultural studies, interdisciplinary and comparative English studies and English linguistics. The papers reflect current research in these areas and show that disciplinary classifications are no longer as rigid as they used to be: Topics are as widely spread as linguistic variation, Māori English, English as a lingua franca, intergenerational conflict, hip hop discourse, literature and the creative arts, science drama, childhood in crime fiction, and the crisis of «high art».Table of ContentsContents: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner/Herbert Schendl: Introduction: Contact and Conflict in English Studies – Gabriella Mazzon: The Expression of Societal and Cultural Conflict in Language – Alexander Onysko: Māori English on the Background of Cultural and Linguistic Contact in Aotearoa (New Zealand) – Barbara Seidlhofer/Nora Dorn/Claudio Schekulin/Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger: Research Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca – Eva Duran Eppler: Language Contact, Culture Contact and Intergenerational Conflict – Julia Averill: Hip Hop Discourse: Identity Formation and Tirolean Youth – David Fuller: «There is no method …»? Contact and Conflict in Interdisciplinary Studies – Sabine Coelsch-Foisner/Christopher Herzog: The Two Cultures Revisited: Strategies in Science Drama, with an exemplary reading of Caryl Churchill’s A Number (2002) and Elfriede Jelinek’s Kein Licht (2011/12) – Dorothea Flothow: Evil Encountered? Childhood, Violence and Innocence in British Crime Fiction – Matthias Mösch: Failure, Farce, and Futile Rage: Cultural Criticism and the Crisis of ‘High Art’ in Thomas Bernhard and William Gaddis.

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Book SynopsisThis reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made flesh and at the same time resounds within the depths of an individual self. The focus of this analysis falls on the essential «Englishness» of Herbert’s poetry and its material weight: its visual concreteness, its musical harmonies, and its attention to human flesh made (English) word.Table of ContentsContents: Philosophy of donation – Saturated phenomenon – Incarnation – Flesh made word – The voice of another – Word made wound – George Herbert’s The Temple – Eucharistic poetry.

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Book SynopsisDuring the English Restoration, London unlicensed health carers printed handbills as the easiest way to advertise their medical practices. In order to increase our awareness of irregular medical practitioners as a cultural phenomenon and examine their language, two collections of handbills have been transcribed. The study analyses the lexicon used to address readers, the traits of orality in written communication as well as the places where proprietary medicines were sold. Furthermore it looks closely at the visual impact of some handbills and the role of anti-quack satire at the end of the seventeenth century.Trade Review«Through the dialogue between science and humanities and thanks to the interdisciplinary approach chosen by Mullini in her latest book, we get a broad and rich vision of a period, of a profession, and of a type of communication which can only enrich our awareness and knowledge of history, literature, and society while, at the same time, confirming the necessity for the true scholar to cross the borders between disciplines in order to reach a wider, and deeper, perspective.» (Alessandra Calanchi, Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate 2/2016)Table of ContentsContents: Historical Context – A Corpus-based Approach to the Language of Quacks – Common Complaints in Corpora from the Medical Domain – How Quacks Addressed their Audience – Quacks and the Media – Three Case Studies: Men, Women, and a Courtier.

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Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to put drama and its neglected mental dimension into the limelight. While narrative fiction with its intricate ways of rendering consciousness has been deemed an ideal playground for approaches of a cognitivist leaning, the dramatic genre has been all but ignored by cognitive literary studies. Providing insights into such drama-related issues as subject construction, interiority, performativity, empathy, reader manipulation and reception control, the contributions to this collection testify to the richness and variety of the cognitivist enterprise.Table of ContentsContents: Monika Fludernik: Consciousness in Drama: A Cognitive Approach – Eva Zettelmann: Drama and the Representation of Fictional Minds – Gabriella Mazzon: Strategic Communication of Pathos and Suffering in Verbal and Visual Medieval Culture – Elke Mettinger: «Now is this golden crown like a deep well» - Richard II from a Cognitive Point of View – Sabine Coelsch-Foisner: Othello: Personality and Personality Building in Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Verdi’s Opera – Michael Raab: The Macbeth Trap: Productions of Shakespeare’s Play in England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland – Christa Knellwolf King: Une Tempête, Aimé Césaire’s Subversion of the Imperial Scripts of Shakespeare’s Tempest – Dieter Fuchs: The Script of the Body and the Soul in The Country-Wife and Tristram Shandy: the ‘Cognitive Turn’ from Restoration Drama to Sentimental Fiction – Caterina Grasl: The (Im)Possible Worlds of Joe Orton: A Cognitive Approach to What the Butler Saw – Bernhard Reitz: «I understand you not, my lord.» - Problems of Cognition and Perception in Tom Stoppard’s Plays – Wolfgang J. Lippke: John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy - A Cognitive Approach – Ewald Mengel: Pinter’s One-Act Plays One for the Road, Mountain Language, and Party Time in the Light of Conceptual Blending Theory – Merle Tönnies: Between Authenticity and Objectification: Narrating the Self in Contemporary British Drama – Eckart Voigts: «Dennis is a Liar» - Mendacity in the Plays of Dennis Kelly – Christopher Innes: Breaking the Boundaries of Narrative: Post-Dramatic Story-Telling – Peter Zenzinger: Parapsychic Phenomena in Early Twentieth-Century American Drama.

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Book Synopsis«Academia in Fact and Fiction» comprises twenty-eight essays on the relationship(s) between the university and the practice of belles lettres. The collection includes studies of the teaching of fiction by university professors; the fit – or misfit – between the creative writer and the academy; the depiction of the university, its staff and atmosphere, in literature, cinema and new media; and the varieties of academic fiction ranging from the ludic and satirical to the tragic. Most of the works addressed in the volume are British or American, modern or contemporary, but the historical range extends to Victorian and Shakespearian works, and the geographical range includes novels and poems from Russia, New Zealand, and Nigeria. Among the genres discussed are, in addition to the «literary novel», plays, detective fiction, fanfiction, utopias, mysteries and alternative history. The contributors are international and cosmopolitan.Table of Contentsacademic fiction – scholars as fictionists and performers – academia across time and media – university professors – humanities – academic mystery – utopia – writer-in-residence – creative writing – Shakespeare – C.S. Lewis – Charles William – Nabokov – Julia Kristeva – David Foster Wallace – Stephen Fry – Francine Prose – Carol Shields – Nigerian Biafra-novels

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Book SynopsisThis study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading of Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale and Manciple’s Tale, the book analyses how the concept of textual authority came to be both challenged and vindicated in the face of the growing importance of an empowered vernacular readership. Thus, the fables of John Lydgate and the presentation of Chaucer’s texts in some of the earliest printed editions of the Canterbury Tales indicate the development of a Chaucerian poetics that was grounded in Chaucer’s own critical reflection on the scholastic account of poetic fiction.Table of ContentsScholastic poetics, poetic fiction and the late medieval vernacular fable – Poetic authority and the authorisation of Chaucer – Chaucer’s poetics and its reception in fifteenth-century England

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly edition of Thomas Dekker, John Marston, John Day, and William Haughton’s Lust’s Dominion; or, the Lascivious Queen (ca. 1598-1600) is the first in half a century and the first ever translation into Spanish. The comprehensive introduction in English and Spanish examines the contexts of the play addressing such topics as ethnicity and alterity, Anglo-Spanish relations and the roles of women. La presente edición de El dominio de la lujuria, o, la reina lasciva (ca. 1598-1600) de Thomas Dekker, John Marston, John Day y William Haughton incluye la primera traducción jamás realizada al español además de la primera edición crítica en inglés en medio siglo. Una extensa introducción presenta los contextos de la obra en detalle, estudiando aspectos tales como la alteridad, los roles de la mujer y las relaciones anglo-españolas en la época.Table of ContentsElizabethan play – Authoritative critical edition – Spanish translation – bilingual edition – Anglo-Spanish relations – ethnicity and alterity; Obra de teatro isabelino – Edición crítica autorizada – Traducción al español – Edición bilingüe – Relaciones anglo-españolas – Etnicidad y alteridad

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Book SynopsisDas Interesse an konfessioneller Pluralität und interkonfessionellen Austauschprozessen ist in der Frühneuzeitforschung ungebrochen hoch. Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes, die sich aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, geschichtswissenschaftlicher und theologischer Perspektive mit Phänomenen der Interkonfessionalität beschäftigen, möchten einen interdisziplinären Beitrag zu diesem Forschungsfeld liefern. Ein besonderes Interesse gilt dabei dem Einfluss diskursiver und gesellschaftlicher Kontexte auf die konkrete Realisierung von Interkonfessionalität sowohl in der sozialen Interaktion zwischen Akteuren als auch in literarischen Werken und ihrer Rezeption.

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Book SynopsisElizabethans saw eloquent language as the mark of the civilized gentleman. At the same time, they believed language to be able to harm, analogous to physical violence. Such concepts of language have important implications for the study of religious controversies of the time, in which the authors often attacked each other harshly via printed language. Employing historical discourse analysis, this study analyses Elizabethan concepts of violent language and shows under which circumstances Elizabethans understood language use as violence. In a second step, the main contributions in one of the most notorious theological controversies of the time, the Marprelate controversy, are analysed in terms of how these concepts of violent language were used as strategies of legitimation and de-legitimation.Table of ContentsHistorical discourse analysis – The Elizabethan religious field and the violence of printed theological controversies in Elizabethan England – Violent language in Elizabethan Speech ethics – Language and Violence in Forms of Legitimation and De-legitimation in the Marprelate Controversy

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band setzt sich mit der didaktischen Implementierung Shakespeares Werk auseinander. Im Fokus stehen dabei die in jüngster Zeit radikal veränderten medialen sowie literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Bedingungen unter Berücksichtigung neuester didaktischer Erkenntnisse. Darüber hinaus verfolgt der Band das Ziel, neue interdisziplinäre Einblicke in verschiedene aktuelle Themen und Ansätze der Lehre Shakespeares im (Hoch-) Schulunterricht zu ermöglichen. Der Fokus ist darauf gerichtet, Theorie und Praxis zu verbinden, um so Studierenden, Wissenschaftler/innen und auch Lehrer/innen grundlegendes Wissen im Bereich der heutigen Shakespeare-Rezeption sowie praktische Beispiele, die sich in verschiedenen Unterrichtssituationen bewährt haben, zu vermitteln. This volume deals with the methodological implementation of Shakespeare's work. The focus is on the recently radically changed media, literary and cultural studies conditions, taking into account the latest research findings in EFL methodology. In addition, the volume aims to provide new interdisciplinary insights into various current topics and approaches for teaching Shakespeare to all ages. The focus is on combining theory and practice to transmit profound knowlegde to university students and lecturers as well as to teachers. The essays in this collection try to account for both perspectives by giving an overview of contemporary Shakespeare scholarship as well as practical examples that have proven successful in a wide range of classroom situations. Table of ContentsMaria Eisenmann, Einleitung: Shakespeare im Englischunterricht – Maria Eisenmann, Shakespeare in the EFL Classroom – a Current Overview – Roland Petersohn/ Laurenz Volkmann, From Shakespeare didaktisch (2006) to Teaching Shakespeare in 2019 – a Sea Change – Jan Eschbach, Dwarving the Literary Giant? The Challenge of New and Traditional Approaches to Shakespeare in the Language Class – Jessica Nowoczien, Shakespeare in der Sekundarstufe I: Wie es euch gefällt oder verlorene Liebesmüh? – Michael Mitchell, Wild Laughter? Comic Approaches to Shakespeare – Claudia Deetien, «Imagine that You See the Wretched Strangers» - Teaching William Shakespeare in the Context of the Refugee Crisis – Christian Ludwig/Frank Erik Pointner, Of Ghosts and Daggers: Using Comic Adaptations of Macbeth in the EFL Classroom – Theresa Summer, Romeo and Juliet goes Pop: Developing Literature-Related Competences through Illustrated Texts, Videos, and Songs – Grit Alter/Max von Blanckenburg, Taking Romeo and Juliet to the British seaside. Exploring a contemporary short film adaptation with language learners

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Book SynopsisFor more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally changed the book industry in their time. With a macroscopic, comparative approach, this book looks at the transitional phases of the book of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries to locate distinctive patterns in the acceptance of new technologies. Using specific book value categories, which shape the acceptance context of innovations in book production, helps us find continuities and discontinuities of these patterns. It also offers a better understanding of current developments in publishing in the digital age. Trade Review«In Rosenberg’s book, I valued clear phrasing, a well demarcated organization, previews and summaries for emphasis, and, above all, erudition […]. I hear lots of facile discussions of the book as a commodity; this is not one.» (James E. May, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, October 2020)Table of Contents1. Basic Concepts: Value and Acceptance 2. The Gutenberg Age 3. The Industrial Age 4. The Digital Age

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues between ecotheorists such as Timothy Morton, Gilles Deleuze, and Bruno Latour and Montaigne, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and Olivier de Serres.Trade Review"Early Modern Écologies is a welcome addition to dialogue on ecology and ecocriticism in early modern studies. It enriches contemporary ecocriticism with a sturdy array of essays, each offering a reading or readings of canonical texts of early modern French literature."- Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University, H-France Review, Vol. 21 (July 2021), No. 121 "Given the predominance of modern and contemporary British models in this critical field, focusing on early modern French texts represents a most welcome move. Through its many close readings, the volume demonstrates that early modern ecological thinking was much more than a simple meditation on environmental issues. [...] This is fascinating material."- Giulia Pacini, William & Mary, L'Esprit Créateur, Spring 2021Table of Contents1. Avant-Propos Bruno Latour 2. Introduction Pauline Goul (Cornell U.) and Phillip John Usher (New York U.) 3. Nonhuman Humanism Phillip John Usher (New York U.) 4. Off the Human Track: Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy Hassan Melehy (U. of North Carolina) 5. Human and Vegetal Gestures: French Material Sympathies Antónia Szabari (U. of Southern California) 6. Du Bellay's Geological Time Victor Velázquez (Biola U.) 7. Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization Pauline Goul (Cornell U.) 8. Weird Ecological Time: After Ronsard's Franciade (1572) Kat Addis (New York U.) 9. Nature/Culture: The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance "Climate Theories" Sara Miglietti (Johns Hopkins U.) 10. Olivier de Serres on Ecology and Economy Tom Conley (Harvard U.) 11. Du Bartas, Responding to Morton's Milton Stephanie Shifflett (Boston U.) 12. Is there Nature? Jean Bodin's Treasure Seekers Oumelbanine Zhiri (U. of California, San Diego) 13. Nature Without Theology: Montaigne's neither Deep, nor Dark, Ecology Richard E. Keatley (Georgia State U.) 14. Epilogue Louisa Mackenzie (U. of Washington)

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Book SynopsisIn the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preserving materials necessary for nourishment and survival; yet they also fed social and economic networks and nurtured a sense of physical, spiritual, and political connection to surrounding lands and their cultures. The essays in this volume illuminate this expansive view of cooking and aspire to show how the kitchen's inner workings prove tightly, though often invisibly, interwoven with local, national, and, increasingly, global surroundings. Engaging with literary and historical methodologies, including close reading, recipe analysis, and perspectives on gender, class, race, and colonialism, we begin to develop a shared theoretical and practical language for the art of cooking that combines the physical with the intellectual, the local with the global, and the domestic with the political.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction In the Kitchen (Madeline Bassnett and Hillary M. Nunn) Section 1: Embodied Ecologies Sympoeisis and Early Modern Cooking: Troubling the Boundaries of Human/Nonhuman (Jennifer Munroe) Between Earth and Sky: The Cook as Environmental Mediator in Paradise Lost (Madeline Bassnett) Instinct and the Body of the Early Modern Cook (Katherine Walker) Section 2: Bread, Cake, and Carp Early Modern Leaven in Bread, Bodies, and Spirit (Margaret Simon) Cake: An Early Modern Chronicle of Trade, Technology, and Exchange (Amy L. Tigner) The Power of the Pot: Naturalizing Carp Through the Early Modern English Receipt Book (Rob Wakeman) Section 3: Royalist Cookery How to Make a Bisk: The Restoration Cookbook as National Restorative (David B. Goldstein) ‘A Little Winter Savory, A Little Time’: Making History in Elizabeth Cromwell’s Kitchen (Andy Crow) A Culinary Embassy: Diplomatic Home Making in Lady Ann Fanshawe’s Booke of Receipts (Melissa Schultheis) Section 4: Around the Hearth Minding the Fire: Human-Fire Coagency in Margaret Cavendish’s Matrimonial Trouble and Seventeenth-Century Recipes (Rebecca Laroche) ‘Teâgun kuttiemaûnch: What Food Shall I Prepare for You?’: Exchanges in Early New England Kitchens (Julie A. Fisher) ‘A New Source of Happiness to Man’?: Maple Sugaring and Settler Colonialism in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Edith Snook)

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Book SynopsisIn a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists -- men and women -- conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One Confuting Those Blind Geographers: Christopher Marlowe's Spectacle of Maps and the Female Body Chapter Two 'T'illumine the now obscurèd Palestine': Elizabeth Cary and the Mapping of Early Modern Marriage and Colonialism Chapter Three 'Willing to pay their maidenheads': Thomas Heywood and the Cartography of Bodily Commerce Chapter Four 'The Fort of her Chastity': Cavendish's Mapmakers of Virtue Conclusion Women as World-Writers Bibliography Index

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