Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Longing for Connection
Book SynopsisUntangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War. Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like to live in the past? In Longing for Connection, historian Andrew Burstein attempts to answer this question with a vigorous, nuanced emotional history of the United States from its founding to the Civil War. Through an examination of the letters, diaries, and other personal texts of the time, along with popular poetry and novels, Burstein shows us how early Americans expressed deep emotions through shared metaphors and borrowed verse in their longing for meaning and connection. He reveals how literate, educated Americansboth well-known and more obscureexpressed their feelings to each other and made attempts at humor, navigating an anxious world in which connection across spaces was difficult to capture. In studying the power of poetr
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University of Toronto Press OuterSpeares
Book SynopsisOuterSpearesis the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers a unique perspective on the transcultural and transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world.Trade Review'OuterSpears enriches the remarkable tradition of Shakespeare scholarship in Canada... The book is highly interdisciplinary in character, making it an important contribution to the study of Shakespeare, adaptation, media, and contemporary culture.' -- Aneta Mancewicz English Studies in Canada vol 41:03:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation (Daniel Fischlin) Section 1: "Strange Invention": Shakespeare in the New Media YouTube Shakespeare and the Rhetorics of Invention (Christy Desmet) "Is there an app for that?": Mobile Shakespeare on the Phone and in the Cloud (Jennifer Ailles) Section 2: "These violent delights have violent ends": Shakespearean Adaptation and Film Intermedia Melted into Media: Understanding Julie Taymor's Film Adaptation of The Tempest in the Wake of 9/11 and the War on Terror (Don Moore) Transgression and Transformation: Mickey B and the Dramaturgy of Adaptation - An Interview with Tom Magill (Daniel Fischlin, Tom Magill, and Jessica Riley) Section 3: "All the Uses of this World": TV, Radio, Popular Music, Theatre and the Uses of Intermedia Slings & Arrows: Pedagogical Theory and Practice in an Intermediated Shakespeare (Kim Fedderson and Michael Richardson) Your Master's Voice: The Shakespearean Narrator as Intermedial Authority on 1930s American Radio (Andrew Bretz) Sounding Shakespeare: Intermedia Adaptation and Popular Music (Daniel Fischlin) "Playing the Race Bard": How Shakespeare and Harlem Duet Sold (at) the 2006 Stratford Festival (James McKinnon) Section 4: "Give No Limits to My Tongue ... I am Privileged to Speak": The Limits of Adaptation? Patchwork Shakespeare: Community Events at the American Shakespeare Tercentenary (1916) (Monika Smialkowska) Upcycling Shakespeare: Crafting Cultural Capital (Sujata Iyengar) Beyond Adaptation (Mark Fortier)
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism
Book SynopsisThe general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like Feste's 'chev'ril glove,' often simultaneously served and subverted the official ideology.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Slavic Transliteration Introduction: When Worlds Collide: Shakespeare and Communisms IRENA R. MAKARYK and JOSEPH G. PRICE PART ONE: SHAKESPEARE IN FLUX: 1917 TO THE 1930s Performance and Ideology: Shakespeare in 1920s Ukraine IRENA R. MAKARYK Shakespeare and the Working Man: Communist Applications during Nationalist Periods in Latvia LAURA RAIDONIS BATES Shakespeare as a Founding Father of Socialist Realism: The Soviet Affair with Shakespeare ARKADY OSTROVSKY A Five-Year Plan for The Taming of the Shrew lAURENCE SENELICK The Forest of Arden in Stalin's Russia: Shakespeare's Comedies in the Soviet Theatre of the Thirties ALEXEY BARTOSHEVITCH PART TWO: WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND THE GREAT DIVIDE Wartime Hamlet IRENA R. MAKARYK 'Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all': New Documentation on the Okhlopkov Hamlet LAURENCE SENELICK Shakespeare and the Berlin Wall WERNER HABICHT In Search of a Socialist Shakespeare: Hamlet on East German Stages LAWRENCE GUNTNER Shakespeare the Politicizer: Two Notable Stagings in East Germany MAIK HAMBURGER PART THREE: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY Translations of Politics / Politics of Translation: Czech Experience MARTIN HILSKY Krystyna Skuszanka's Shakespeare of Political Allusions and Metaphors in Communist Poland KRYSTYNA KUJAWINB SKA COURTNEY War, Lechery, and Goulash Communism: Troilus and Cressida in Socialist Hungary ZOLTAN MARKUS The Chinese Vision of Shakespeare (from 1950 to 1990): Marxism and Socialism XIAO YANG ZHANG From Maoism to (Post) Modernism: Hamlet in Communist China SHUHUA WANG PART FOUR: THEORIZING MARXIST SHAKESPEARES Caliban/Cannibal/Carnival: Cuban Articulations of Shakespeare's The Tempest MARIA CLARA VERSIANI GALERY Ideology and Performance in East German Versions of Shakespeare ROBERT WEIMANN Marx Manque: A Brief History of Marxist Shakespeare Criticism in North America, ca. 1980-ca. 2000 349 SHARON O'DAIR Contributors Index Index of Shakespearean Plays
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University of Toronto Press The Civil War
Book SynopsisThe Civil War is a poem which Abraham Cowley (1618-67) did not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since Cowley's death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three.The poem is a major addition to the body of Cowley's poetry; it has close and sometimes surprising connections with much of his other work. It is not only the most extended and important of his political poems but a significant addition to the genre of the political poem. It is also unique as the attempt by a poet of stature to give epic treatment to the events of the English Civil War.Professor Pritchard provides a discussion
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University of Toronto Press An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of
Book SynopsisComposed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the first time the full range of Culverwell's sources – classical, medieval, and Renaissance – and enables the reader to appreciate his manner of citing authority and handling illustration.(Department of English Studies and Texts 17)
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University of Toronto Press Dressed to Kill
Book SynopsisThe noble wives in María de Zayas''s Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas''s aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author''s pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas''s Desengaños with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints'' lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas''s intention to reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the Desengaños'' intriguing influence on the aesthetic baTrade Review'This is a fine book that lives up to its beautiful packaging. Rhodes makes excellent use of artistic as well as literary evidence, incorporating carefully chosen illustrations into the body of her discussion... This new effort to read Zayas on her own terms can only enhance our experience of her texts. I applaud Elizabeth Rhodes for having the courage of her conviction.' -- Hilaire Kellendorf Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012 'Dressed to Kill is written in a lively and engaging style... This monograph makes a substantial contribution to Maria de Zayas' works and more generally to the study of Golden-Age Spain; consequently it deserves to become a key reference point for future research.' -- Eavan O'Brien Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 90:07:2013Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting the Interpretative Baseline 1. The Desenga os at a Distance 2. Attending the Soir e 3 Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in the Desenga os 4 Dead End: The Convent 5 Postscript: Laurela Conclusion Plot Summaries Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare and the Second World War
Book SynopsisThe essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 19391945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.Trade Review'Shakespeare and the Second World War is consistently fascinating and wide-ranging in scope.' -- Garrett A. Sullivan Jr Studies in English Language vol 53:02:2013 'One of those rare books that merges both literature and history in equal proportion, Shakespeare and the Second World War is a rich mine of information to scholars, writers, historians, literary aficionados, and all general lovers of knowledge.' -- Oguntoyinbo Deji Journal of Military and Strategic Studies vol 15:03:2014Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Shakespeare and the Second World War. IRENA R. MAKARYK (University of Ottawa) German Shakespeare, the Third Reich, and the War. WERNER HABICHT (University of W rzburg) Shakespearean Negotiations in the Perpetrator Society: German Productions of The Merchant of Venice during the Second World War. ZENO ACKERMANN (Freie Universit t Berlin) Shylock, Palestine, and the Second World War. MARK BAYER (University of Texas at San Antonio) "Caesar's word against the world": Mussolini's Caesarism and Discourses of Empire. NANCY ISENBERG (the Universit degli Studi Roma Tre) Shakespeare and Censorship during the Second World War: Othello in Occupied Greece TINA KRONTIRIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) "In This Hour of History: Amidst These Tragic Events": Polish Shakespeare during the Second World War KRYSTYNA KUJAWINSKA COURTNEY (University of Lodz) Pasternak's Shakespeare in Wartime Russia. ALEKSEI SEMENENKO (Stockholm University) Shakespeare as an Icon of the Enemy Culture: Shakespeare in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 RYUTA MINAMI (Shirayuri College) "Warlike Noises": Jingoistic Hamlet during the Sino-Japanese Wars. ALEX HUANG (Penn State University) Shakespeare, Stratford, and the Second World War. SIMON BARKER (University of Lincoln) Rosalinds, Violas, and Other Sentimental Friendships: The Osiris Players and Shakespeare, 1939-45. PETER BILLINGHAM (University of Winchester) Maurice Evans's "G.I. Hamlet": Analogy, Authority and Adaptation. ANNE RUSSELL (Wilfrid Laurier University) The War at "Home": Representations of Canada and of World War II in Star Crossed. MARISSA MCHUGH (University of Ottawa) Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in Auschwitz. TIBOR EGERVARI (University of Ottawa) Appropriating Shakespeare in Defeat: Hamlet and the Contemporary Polish Vision of War. KATARZYNA KWAPISZ-WILLIAMS (University of Lodz) Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare in Quebec
Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare in Québec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Québec since the Quiet Revolution.Trade Review'Drouin's examination of Qu b cois literature is a refreshing, entirely new addition to the field of Shakespeare studies. This work would be of interest to readers who focus on any one of her three key terms - Qu b cois, adaptation, or Shakespeare - as well as those interested in postcolonial Studies.' -- Laura Schechter English Studies in Canada vol 41:03:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Postcolonial Shakespeares and Gendering the Quebec Nation Chapter 2: A Theory of Shakespearean Adaptation Chapter 3: The Quiet Revolution: Passer a l'action Chapter 4: Tyrants and Usurpers: Tradapting the Conquest Chapter 5: The First Referendum: Daughters of the Carnivalized Nation Chapter 6: The Second Referendum: Plurality without Pluralism Conclusion: Quebec v. Canada: Interculturalism and the Politics of Recognition Appendix: Chronology of Quebecois Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1968-2013 Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press Poets Players and Preachers
Book SynopsisIn Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy.Trade Review‘Masterful, nuanced, and at times almost overwhelming treatment of Gunpowder Plot.’ -- Leah Knight * Renaissance and Reformation vol 40:04:2017 *"Poets, Players and Preachers is an ambitious book, as rewarding as it is challenging, covering a wide range of genres stretching across a hundred years of history and drawing on a wide range of scholarship and theory." -- Brent Nelson * Seventeenth Century News *"[This book] is a fine example of the iterative relationship between literary and historical inquiry, as well as a complex account of how the memory of a single (and ultimately failed) historical event can come to serve widely divergent ends." -- Todd Butler * Seventeenth Century News *"Poets, Players and Preachers offers a captivating study of the literary repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot. James makes it clear that this is very much a historicist approach to literary studies and demonstrates the importance and advantages that a greater interdisciplinary relationship between literary and historical studies can bring to enrich our understanding of intention, transmission, and reception of early modern literature." -- Tatyana Zhukova, University of Nottingham * The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018 *Table of Contents1.Introduction: Writing the Gunpowder Plot 2."like Sampson's foxes": Creating a Jacobean Myth of Deliverance 3."And no religion beinds men to be traitors": The Plot on Stage 4."In marble records fit to be inrold": Epic Monuments for a Protestant Nation 5"fit audience find, though few": Militant Protestants and Forgotten Monuments 6."For God and the King": Preaching on the Plot Anniversary 7.Conclusion: Echoes and Reverberations Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeares Big Men
Book SynopsisShakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans.Trade Review"Shakespeare’s Big Men is an earnest, ambitious, and illuminating book... Van Oort’s close readings, which occupy the better part of the book, are well paced, thorough, and careful... In the end, the greatest strength of the book is that van Oort manages to present a Shakespeare who is both an acute observer of human society and, as an artist, a contributor to it - someone whose tragic theater can defer violence. Admirers of Bradley and Girard will find a great deal to like in this book. Adherents to what Harold Bloom calls ‘French Shakespeare’ or the ‘school of resentment’ might do well to reckon with it." -- Blair Hoxby * Modern Philology (2018) *"Shakespeare’s Big Men by Richard van Oort is one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books to appear on Shakespeare in the past few years. Drawing on the anthropologies of Eric Gans and René Girard, van Oort argues that Shakespeare’s tragedies provide a way of dealing with the problem of resentment... Through compelling readings of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and Coriolanus, van Oort proposes that Shakespearean tragedy goes further [than Greek tragedy] in its anthropological insights, thematizing tragedy’s role in the discharge of resentment." -- Paul Kottman * Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2018) *‘Shakespeare’s Big Men is an earnest, ambitious and illuminating book.’ -- Blair Hoxby * Modern Philology vol 115:04:2017 *"Van Oort’s strategy of comparing the structural significance and experiences of characters from play to play energizes and strengthens his claims. The book is especially intriguing for its compelling exploration of tragic meta-theatricality as a sign of the frightening and stimulating openness of the early modern centre." -- Glenn Clark, University of Manitoba * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Why Shakespeare and Generative Anthropology? Chapter 2 - The Originary Hypothesis: Hierarchy, Resentment, and Tragedy Chapter 3 - Brutus's Neoclassical Irony Chapter 4 - Hamlet's Filthy Imagination Chapter 5 - Iago Our Co-Conspirator Chapter 6 - Macbeth Unseamed Chapter 7 - Coriolanus's Impotence Chapter 8 - Coda: Rene Girard's Shakespeare
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University of Toronto Press Mousetrap
Book SynopsisThere is scarcely an element of Hamlet that has not received attention many times, yet both general reader and sophisticated critic would generally agree that the character of Hamlet and the full meanings of the play remain mysteries. No less a puzzle is the art of Hamlet, for, while the form of the art is elusive, the feeling of essential meaning is strong.Professor Aldus hopes to enlarge our understanding of Hamlet and our appreciation of Shakespeare as a conscious artist of great subtlety by studying the play’s dramatic structure in the light of Aristotle’s Poetics and its meaning as literary myth in the light of Plato’s Phaedrus. This is a study of Hamlet as literary myth, a figurative mode of art in which structure is basic; yet primal myth, myth in the larger, non-literary sense, becomes part of it too, because the substance of Hamlet seems to be of this kind.Professor Al
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text
Book SynopsisA Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare's texts, and a useful bibliography Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty Trade Review"As the concept of authorship continues to deconstruct itself in the wake of postmodernism, the volume is an indispensable addition to the bookshelves of both students and academics." (Notes and Queries, December 2009) "The essays offer a good balance of general history, theoretical issues, and individual case studies, such that, as a whole, the collection will be a valuable resource for those new to book-history studies, while also advancing ongoing debates through a series of thoughtful reflections on the state of the field." (Archiv, 2009) "This collection is more than a companion. It is a superlative guide to the current crisis surrounding the editing of the complex Shakespearean text ... .Essential” (CHOICE) "Andrew Murphy's ably edited Concise Companion to Shakespeare and Text ... constitutes an appropriate consecration for an area in Shakespeare studies whose vast importance has become increasingly obvious. [This book] provides an authoritative introduction to the field and full coverage of it, with a useful division into three main parts: 'Histories of the Book' (I), 'Theories of Editing' (II), and 'Practicalities' (III) … a fine achievement." (Around the Globe)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments x Note on Texts xi Introduction: What Happens in Hamlet? 1Andrew Murphy Part I Histories of the Books 15 1 The Publishing Trade in Shakespeare’s Time 17Helen Smith 2 Reading and Authorship: The Circulation of Shakespeare 1590–1619 35Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier 3 Shakespeare Writ Small: Early Single Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays 57Thomas L. Berger 4 The Life of the First Folio in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 71Anthony James West Part II Theories of Editing 91 5 The Birth of the Editor 93Andrew Murphy 6 The Science of Editing 109Paul Werstine 7 Editing Shakespeare in a Postmodern Age 128Leah S. Marcus 8 Shakespeare and the Electronic Text 145Michael Best Part III Practicalities 163 9 Working with the Text: Editing in Practice 165David Bevington 10 Working with the Texts: Differential Readings 185Sonia Massai 11 Mapping Shakespeare’s Contexts: Doing Things with Databases 204Neil Rhodes Afterword 221John Drakakis Bibliography 239 Index 258
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisThis Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work. Trade Review"Of making many reference books about Shakespeare there is no end, and Blackwell, a leader in the field of reference books on literature and other topics, has produced a large and expensive Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Chronique) "This title provides a solid introduction to key concepts and ways of studying the work of an author who whose reputation is so great it is often difficult for readers new to the works to know where to begin.... The quality of all the essays is very high." (Reference Reviews, Issue 4 2008) "Michael Schoenfeldt's compilation of twenty-five critical essays takes into account the most important issues concerning Shakespeare's sonnets: historical, interpretive, biographical, and editorial ... Several familiar themes in Sonnet criticism get fresh readings here … it is obviously impossible to do justice here to all of the essays ... it is a valuable [guide] to the current state of criticism and scholarship." (Renaissance Quarterly) "This is generally an excellently structured collection of essays." (Notes and Queries)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 Part I Sonnet Form and Sonnet Sequence 13 1 The Value of the Sonnets 15 Stephen Booth 2 Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets 27 Helen Vendler 3 The Incomplete Narrative of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 45 James Schiffer 4 Revolution in Shake-speares Sonnets 57 Margreta de Grazia Copyrighted Material Part II Shakespeare and His Predecessors 71 5 The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare 73 Richard Strier 6 “Dressing old words new”? Re-evaluating the “Delian Structure” 90 Heather Dubrow 7 Confounded by Winter: Speeding Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 104 Dympna Callaghan Part III Editorial Theory and Biographical Inquiry: Editing the Sonnets 119 8 Shake-speares Sonnets, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Shakespearean Biography 121 Richard Dutton 9 Mr. Who He? 137 Stephen Orgel 10 Editing the Sonnets 145 Colin Burrow 11 William Empson and the Sonnets 163 Lars Engle Part IV The Sonnets in Manuscript and Print 183 12 Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England 185 Arthur F. Marotti 13 The Sonnets and Book History 204 Marcy L. North Part V Models of Desire in the Sonnets 223 14 Shakespeare’s Love Objects 225 Douglas Trevor 15 Tender Distance: Latinity and Desire in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 242 Bradin Cormack 16 Fickle Glass 261 Rayna Kalas 17 “Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame”: Mapping the “Emotional Regime” of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 277 Jyotsna G. Singh Part VI Ideas of Darkness in the Sonnets 291 18 Rethinking Shakespeare’s Dark Lady 293 Ilona Bell 19 Flesh Colors and Shakespeare’s Sonnets 314 Elizabeth D. Harvey Part VII Memory and Repetition in the Sonnets 329 20 Voicing the Young Man: Memory, Forgetting, and Subjectivity in the Procreation Sonnets 331 Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. 21 “Full character’d”: Competing Forms of Memory in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 343 Amanda Watson Part VIII The Sonnets in/and the Plays 361 22 Halting Sonnets: Poetry and Theater in Much Ado About Nothing 363 Patrick Cheney 23 Personal Identity and Vicarious Experience in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 383 William Flesch Part IX The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint 403 Margaret Healy 25 The Enigma of A Lover’s Complaint 426 Catherine Bates Appendix: The 1609 Text of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint 441 Index 502
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Duke University Press The Plantation the Postplantation and the
Book SynopsisThis special issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities. Attending to the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, contributors follow the evolution of plantation slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through its subsequent iterations in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, and into the neoliberal present, where the carceral state props up fantasies of postracialism. The contributors rethink the necro- and biopolitics of plantation slavery, uncovering laborers' strategies of self-determination, affiliation, and communication in spite of the plantation's mechanisms of control. Essay topics include the circulation of a weekly newspaper published by black tenant farmers in the 1920s, a nineteenth-century trial of an enslaved woman, and the fetish-making of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal. Reconsidering the time and space of the plantation, contributors analyze Western processes of racialization a
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New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
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New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
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New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
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New York University Press Arabian Satire
Book SynopsisSatirical verse on society and its hypocrisiesA master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija?), the poet ?medan al-Shwe?ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, ?medan wrote in an idiom widely referred to as Naba?i, here a mix of Najdi vernacular and archaic vocabulary and images dating to the origins of Arabic poetry. In Arabian Satire, ?medan is mostly concerned with worldly matters and addresses these in different guises: as the patriarch at the helm of the family boat and its unruly crew; as a picaresque anti-hero who revels in taking potshots at the established order, its hypocrisy, and its failings; as a peasant who labors over his palm trees, often to no avail and with no guarantee of success; and as a poet recording in verse how he thinks things ought to be.The poems in Arabian Satire reveal a plucky, headstrong, yet intenselyTrade ReviewColorful contrasts abound. . . . Quite entertaining. * The Complete Review *[Ḥmēdān's] gift for the memorable turn of phrase has ensured that his poetry has never been forgotten… A handsomely produced volume of 'melodic verses that swell and roll / like roaring waves on a pitch-black sea.' * IASA Bulletin *
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New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
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University of Toronto Press Samsons Cords Imposing Oaths in Milton Marvell
Book SynopsisSamson’s Cords examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by an explosion of loyalty oaths in Britain before and after 1660.Trade Review"Samson’s Cords is a sophisticated, learned, and thoughtful book based on wide reading and deep thinking." -- Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex * Modern Philology *"Garganigo’s work certainly increases our understanding of the literature of Milton, Marvell, and Butler, and for those who specialize in their study, Samson’s Cords is well worth a read." -- Jonathan Michael Gray * Renaissance Quarterly *"The dialogic nature of Samson’s Cords will make it the go-to book for people interested in any and all issues surrounding the oath: perjury, censorship, cursing, equivocation, casuistry, office, loyalty, promise, and ethics. There is much here as well for early modernists working on Butler, Marvell, and Milton, as Garganigo provides new, innovative, and restorative readings of all three, reminding readers how important literary poetics continues to be within the ethically focused historical scholarship of the last several years." -- Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of Contents1. Samson’s Cords in Restoration England 2. Conjuring Oaths and Identities in Hudibras 3. Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transpros’d 4. An Horatian Oath: the Horatian Ode, Secularism, and Toleration 5. Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes 6. Paradise Lost I: God’s Swearing By Himself 7. Paradise Lost II: Of Apples, Oaths, and Women A Proposal for Emending One of Marvell’s Letters
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University of Toronto Press Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary
Book SynopsisPremodern Ecologies explores how places, both local and global, shape scholarship on medieval and Renaissance English literature.Table of ContentsPreface Environmental Reading: Premodern Literature in Its Places Introduction Oecologies: Engaging the World, from Here 1. The Love of Life: Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Close to Home 2. Backyard 3. Bold Riparian Schemes: Imagining Water and the Hydrosocial Cycle across Time and Space 4. Distemperature in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5. Biodynamic Viticulture, Natural Wine, and the Premodern 6. Sustainability 7. Consuming Debt 8. Failure 9. A Singular World: The Perils and Possibilities of the Bird’s Eye View 10. Liquids and Solids: Indigeneity as Capricious Matter in William Colenso’s Colonial Encounters 11. Ruined Medievalism 12. Tangled History: Nature, Nation, and Canadian Neomedievalism Afterword: Environmentalism, Eco-Cosmopolitanism, and Premodern Thought
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University of Toronto Press Disastrous Subjectivities
Book SynopsisDrawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft’s Shipwreck 2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real 3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Alpine Sublime 4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron’s Poetics of the Real 5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley’s "The Triumph of Life" Coda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Arms and Letters
Book SynopsisArms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier’s service was presented as a debt of honour, and second, as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metTrade Review"Harden’s study focuses on specific texts, but her in-depth analysis and conclusions provide new insights into the social, historical, military, religious, cultural, and literary implications of soldier writing in early modern Spain." -- Iana Konstantinova, Southern Virginia University * Journal of Military History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Arms and Letters 1. Virtue, Honour, and Exemplarity 2. Professional Honour and the Production of Knowledge 3. Spiritual Honour and Religious Authority 4. Playing the Pícaro Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Culture and Authority in the Baroque
Book SynopsisThe cultural forms often referred to as ‘baroque’ are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe’s effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority was being centralized, the authority of religion undermined by the division of Christianity, and science and poetry were seen increasingly as rival forms of intellectual authority. Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.The essays in this collection span what has been called the ‘baroque crescent’ stretching from Spain through Italy to Russia, but they also bring Shakespeare and English cosmological poetry into productive dialogue with continental Europe in the reinterpretation of baroque world-views. The editors, Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman, along with a group of eminent scholars from across the Table of ContentsIntroduction MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA AND PATRICK COLEMAN Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder PETER G. PLATT Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring Muse LORNA CLYMER Marino and the Meraviglia PAOLO CHERCHI I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds PAOLO FASOLI Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640 JON R. SNYDER 'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early Seicento ANDREW DELL'ANTONIO From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque RONALD VROON Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's Esther ANN DELEHANTY Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order ERNESTA ZITSER Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge' JOHN D. LYONS The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz MALINA STEFANOVSKA A Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern Spain LISA VOLLENDORF Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Lyric Temporalities
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University of Toronto Press Morality and Social Class in EighteenthCentury French Literature and Painting
Book SynopsisThe moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to take shape, one erotic and libertine, the other highly moralistic. Both represented a revolt against the formalism of the seventeenth century. The roman érotique was rooted in a hedonistic philosophy whose objective was to enlarge the scope of freedom, translated in sexual terms, while the moralistic literature, also influenced by philosophical hedonism, was sentimental, romantic, and defended the Christian idea of love and marriage. Roberts discards some of the common presuppositions of historical and literary criticism, for example, that the literature of sensibility was the reaction of the bourgeoisie against the degenerate aristocracy, and that the libertine literature was created by and accurately portrayed the aristocracy. Such explanations have never been su
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University of Toronto Press A Portrait of Richard Graves
Book SynopsisIt has been said that one of the finest achievements of the Church of England was the maintenance of one well-educated man in every English community. Such a man was Richard Graves. He is best remembered as the author of The Spiritual Quixote, and engaging comic novel written in the mid-eighteenth century. But this life was essentially that of a rural parson. In exploring that life, Clarence Tracy allows us a detailed view of rural English society of the period as well as an appreciation of Graves’s writing.As the second son of a family of landed gentry, Graves was raised with a well-defined sense of his position in society but no income with which to sustain it. He found his place as a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from which vantage point his future looked bright. But he fell in love with a young woman, Lucy Bartholomew, and secretly married for a few weeks before she before their first child. Marriage was forbidden to fellows of All Souls, and when G
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University of Toronto Press Romantic and Its Cognates
Book SynopsisEver since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of their meanings has continued unabated. This collection of essays traces the history of the word in the major European languages, showing how romantic and its cognates were first introduced, how their usage spread and their connotations proliferated, and how their present usage became established.This book opens with an introduction by the editor, followed by an essay in which Professor Raymond Immerwaher, Chairman of the Department of German, University of Western Ontario, shows how romantic and its cognates became fashionable in England, France and Germany, and traces the extension of the meanings of these words up to 1790. The story is then taken up in individual essays on the history of the word and its cognates in the major European countries: in Germany, by the editor; in England
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University of Toronto Press French Individualist Poetry 16861760
Book SynopsisThis anthology has a double aim: to present a body of poetry, none of it easily available, some of it never before reproduced, and to point up a particular trend, until now nearly lost sight of in the maze of generalizations about eighteenth-century French poetry. This trend, called individualist, in contradistinction to the academic and universalist trends of the century, has been chosen since it is the least known and most original of the three.The individualist poets are avowed moderns, and their attitude toward poetry and their concept of its nature often anticipate attitudes held by our poets of our own time. There has not been available to this point a sufficiently representative body of poems by these poets, a gap that Professors Finch and Joliat have attempts to fill with their anthology.Readers will find the notes to the poems especially useful, since many of them provide out-of-the-way background material and, as well, offer new insights into the poetry of th
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University of Toronto Press The Sixth Sense
Book SynopsisIt has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the century, who may appropriately be called individualistes and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time. The authors he has chosen were selected from the larger group of individualists because each provides, in addition to his poems, a complete statement of his own conception of poetry and of that conception which is common to the group as a whole. Since the works treated are comparatively unfamiliar the author has considered them from a historical and an analytical as well as a critical point of view. In addition he has devoted three special chapters to a literary historian (Evrard Titon du Tillet) and to three critical the
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University of Nebraska Press The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern
Book Synopsis 2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women In the last thirty yearsscholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and lawhelp shape this work as a timely reevaluation of the nature and extent of women’s political alliances. Grouped into three sections—domestic, court, and kinship alliances—these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Offering new perspectives on female authors such as the Cavendish sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips, as well as on male-authored texts such as Romeo and Juliet,Trade Review"This volume is more than a collection; it is itself a conversation about where early modern feminist scholarship might "go" next. These chapters perform an extraordinary service, each in its own special expertise, embracing dramatic and poetic performance, the sociology of both collective labor and disruptive competition."—Naomi Conn Liebler, Early Modern Women: An Introductory Journal“An excellent exploration of the ways that politics—writ large—resonated and were represented in literary and dramatic productions in early modern England. Together the authors make a compelling case that the political dimensions of women’s alliances are deserving of more scholarly attention, as they figured largely in the intellectual and cultural worlds of the period and as they have been, up to this point, underexplored by scholars.”—Amanda Herbert, assistant director at the Folger Institute and author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern BritainTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors’ Introduction Part 1. The Politics of Women’s “Domestic” Alliances 1. Distaff Power: Plebeian Female Alliances in Early Modern England Bernard Capp 2. Between Women: Slanderous Speech and Neighborly Bonds in Henry Porter’s The Two Angry Women of Abington Ronda Arab 3. The Political Role of the Gossip in Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned by Women Megan Inbody 4. Virtual and Actual Female Alliance in The Maid’s Tragedy and The Tamer Tamed Niamh J. O’Leary 5. Failed Alliances and Miserable Marriages in Katherine Philips’s Letters Elizabeth Hodgson Part 2. Women’s Alliances and the Politics of the Court 6. Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich 7. Tyrants, Love, and Ladies’ Eyes: The Politics of Female-Boy Alliance on the Jacobean Stage Roberta Barker 8. Her Advocate to the Loudest: Arbella Stuart and Female Courtly Alliance in The Winter’s Tale Alicia Tomasian 9. Not Sparing Kings: Aemilia Lanyer and the Religious Politics of Female Alliance Christina Luckyj Part 3. The Politics of Female Kinship 10. Shakespeare Revises Juliet, the Nurse, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet Steven Urkowitz 11. Crossing Generations: Female Alliances and Dynastic Power in Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record Jessica L. Malay 12. Exilic Inspiration and the Captive Life: The Literary / Political Alliances of the Cavendish Sisters Jennifer Higginbotham 13. Afterword Susan Frye and Karen Robertson Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Sacred Seeds
Book SynopsisExamines New World plants - tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum, and the prickly pear cactus - and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Edward McLean Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative cultural history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity.Trade Review"Sacred Seeds is engaging, richly informative, and a joy to read."—Anna K. Sagal, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700"Sacred Seeds is an important book that underscores the ways in which global botanical knowledge and management has the power to shape human cultures and interactions for better or for worse. It is a timely topic in a world of border crossings, monoculture, and dwindling biodiversity among native plants."—Nicole A. Jacobs, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment"The breadth of source material that Sacred Seeds addresses makes the work a tremendously useful resource for anyone studying the European representation of the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries or seeking to more fully understand the transnational contexts influencing early modern English culture."—Andrea Crow, Renaissance Quarterly"A hugely enjoyable, ambitious and readable book."—Michael H Whitworth, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Merton College“Edward McLean Test shows how Eurocentrism has impoverished our understanding of the early modern world. . . . Test insists on the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, showing how their ideas and stories, as well as their plants, changed Europe. He also reveals the power of literature as an agent of historical change.”—Frances E. Dolan, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis“We need a global early modern studies, and this book will help us make one. Test’s wide-ranging and erudite study enriches the environmental humanities through its deep familiarity with English, Spanish, and Native American texts and contexts, as well as his shrewd engagement with the theoretical insights of contemporary ecocriticism. . . . Test’s book will take its place as one of the significant works in creating the fully global, multilingual, and multiethnic understanding of early modernity that we need today.”—Steve Mentz, professor of English at St. John’s University in New York CityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. New Seeds, Strange Countries: Herbals 2. People of the Figs: Travel Writing 3. King Tobacco: A Study in Genre 4. The Holy Wood of America: Guaiac and The Faerie Queene 5. Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth and The Faerie Queene Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Millennial Cervantes
Book SynopsisMillennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in order to showcase their cutting-edge work within a cultural studies frame that encompasses everything from ekphrasis to philosophy, from sexuality to Cold War political satire, and from the culinary arts to the digital humanities. Millennial Cervantes is divided into three sets of essaysconceptually organized around thematic and methodological lines that move outward in a series of concentric circles. The first group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in his original contexts, features essays that bring new insights to these texts within the primary context of early modern Iberian culture. The second group, focused on the concept of Cervantes in comparative contexts, features essays that examine Cervantes's works in conjunction with those of the English-speaking world, both seventeenth- andTrade Review"This collection of nine provocative, beautifully elaborated essays explores the impact of Cervantes’s writings in their own time and place, and well beyond."—E. H. Friedman, Choice“As the four hundredth anniversary of Don Quixote was celebrated around the world, the book was proclaimed to be not only one of the most transcendental works of the Western tradition—considered second only to the Bible—but also a global phenomenon, perfectly in keeping with our times. Millennial Cervantes is important as part of that global celebration but also as the due contribution of North American Hispanist scholarship.”—Aurora Hermida-Ruiz, coeditor of Garcilaso Studies: A New TrajectoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce R. Burningham Part 1. Cervantes in His Original Contexts 1. From Literary Painting to Marian Iconography: The Cult of Auristela in Cervantes’s Persiles y Sigismunda Mercedes Alcalá Galán 2. “Dios Me Entiende y No Digo Más”: Nominalism, Humanism, and Modernity in Don Quixote Rosilie Hernández 3. Obscene Onomastics and the Sheep-Army Episode of Don Quixote Sherry Velasco Part 2. Cervantes in Comparative Contexts 4. Befriending and Being Friends in Cervantes’s La Galatea (1585) and Sidney’s Arcadia (1593) Marsha S. Collins 5. Cervantine Curiosity and the English Stage Marina S. Brownlee 6. QuixoNation: Unfinished Adaptations of Don Quixote in Cold War U.S. Cinema William P. Childers Part 3. Cervantes in Wider Cultural Contexts 7. Don Quixote and the American Culinary Arts Carolyn A. Nadeau 8. Cervantes, Reality Literacy, and Fundamentalism David Castillo and William Egginton 9. Don Quixote and the Rise of Cyberorality Bruce R. Burningham Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Petrarchism at Work
Book SynopsisThe Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (13041374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These Petrarchan poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poetsas craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy.Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and techniqueTrade ReviewKennedy's command of the source materials and close readings of poetic variants are exceptional. With Petrarchism at Work he has written another authoritative and original study of Petrarch's legacy that will greatly impact theeld. * Renaissance Quarterly *Invites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially to English-language students of Renaissance literature and history who seek to weigh the importance of one of Renaissance Europe's principal literary idioms as its distinctive forms appear in a representative variety of national contexts. * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Marketplace of Mercury Part One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus 2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa’s Entrepreneurial Poetics 4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision Part Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pléiade Aesthetics1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard’s Investment in Les Amours 2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto 3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in Les Amours de Marie4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène Part Three: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man 2. Polish and Skill: Will’s Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61–99 3. Owning Up to Furor: The "Poets’ War" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100–1264. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1–60 Conclusion: Mercurial Economies
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Cornell University Press What Galileo Saw
Book SynopsisThe Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.When Galileo saw the face of the Moon and the moons of Jupiter, Lipking writes, he had to picture a cosmos that could account for them. Kepler thought his geometry could open a window into the mind of God. Francis Bacon''s natural history envisioned an order of things that would replace the illusions of language with solid evidence and transform notions of life and death. Descartes designed a hypothetical Book ofTrade ReviewThe ten amusing and witty essays in What Galileo Saw, which are loosely connected and can be read independently, stem from the premise that if Christian time 'began with the Nativity of Christ, then another age, the dawn of modern times, began when Galileo looked through his spyglass' (p. 3). Lawrence Lipking deals with the cultural impact of the Scientific Revolution and does not claim to explain its genesis beyond recognizing three basic versions of the story. -- William R. Shea * Isis *While tensions between religion and science and arguments about the loss of meaning in the world were obvious as early as the 1600s and continue today (witness modern scientists such as Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot and Richard Dawkins in Unweaving the Rainbow attempting to dispel this perception), Lipking supports his thesis admirably by blending literary analysis of period texts with the philosophers' own writings. He demonstrates that there was no clean line of progress and that the world was never turned fully mechanistic by any of these great scientists. VERDICT Substantial and erudite, this title will appeal to scholarly readers studying the philosophy and history of science. -- Evan M. Anderson * Library Journal *Eighteenth-century literary studies have always been interdisciplinary; understanding Pope and Swift entails understanding garden history and developments in astronomy. Distinguished historian of literary and art theory and of the novel, Lipking (emer.Northwestern) has done enough homework to write a book about the scientific revolution that passes muster with such discerning of historians of science as Peter Dear. The book is not, as it first seems, a connected account of the role of visual imaging in science; rather, Lipking offers a series of meditations on individual figures from Galileo and Kepler to Hooke and Newton.... Lipking's audience is not historians of science but students of literature and even, given his admirable clarity, general readers, for whom he has provided a thoroughly accessible intellectual feast. -- D.L. Patey * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introducing a Revolution2. What Galileo Saw: Two Fables of Sound and Seeing3. Kepler's Progress: Imagining the Future4. The Poetry of the World: A Natural History of Poetics5. "Look There, Look There!" Imagining Life in King Lear6. The Dream of Descartes: The Book of Nature and the Infinite I AM7. A History of Error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth8. The Century of Genius (1): Measuring Up9. The Century of Genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the System of the World10. Revolution and Its Discontents: The Skeptical ChallengeAppendix 1. Galileo: The Fable of SoundAppendix 2. Descartes's Three DreamsNotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Imagining World Order
Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions.Tang highlights the various modes in which literary textssome highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, LohensTrade ReviewAdding to the growing body of work on law and literature, Tang (German, Univ. of California, Berkeley) offers a solid overview of the emergence and evolution of international law, and he argues plausibly that, lacking a supranational enforcement mechanism, international law depended on the poetic imagination to create an idea of world order. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction International Law Literary Approaches to International World Order A Dual History of International Law and European Literature 1. The Old World Order Dissolving Universal Laws in Flux: (Neoscholastic Jurisprudence) Cosmic Order Disturbed: (Camões's Os Lusíadas, Reason of State) The Beginnings of Public International Law: (Gentili, Suárez, Grotius) 2. The Poetics of International Legal Order Treaty and Allegory in the Renaissance The Founding Narratives of International Legal Personality: (Grotius, Hobbes, Leibniz) The Founding Narratives of International Society: (Grotius, Leibniz) Spectacles of International Order The Drama of International Society 3. International Order as Tragedy The Renaissance of Tragedy and the Problem of International Order The Sovereign Will and the Tragic Form: (Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Shakespeare's King John) A Tragicomic Intermezzo: The Shapes of World Order in Shakespeare's Romances The Tragedy of Reason of State: (Lohenstein) The Tragedy of Marriage Alliance: (Corneille) International Order Through Tragic Experience 4. International Order as Romance The Romance Form and World Order: (The Greek Romance, Barclay's Argenis) The Crisis of Political Romance in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: (Herbert) The Apotheosis and Extinction of Political Romance: (Anton Ulrich, Leibniz) 5. The Divergence Between International Law and Literature around 1700 The Depersonalization of the State: (Gryphius, Milton) The Birth of the Private Individual: (Milton, Racine) International Law as a Field of Expert Knowledge Literature and the Private Individual 6. The Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century The Fictional Construction of Society: Ius Naturae et Gentium The Fictional Construction of Society: Poetics of the Novel Transnational Commercial World Order: (Defoe) Sentimental World Order: (Gellert, Sterne) Cosmopolitan World Order: (Wieland, Goethe, Kant) Epilogue Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Echoes of Desire
Book SynopsisEchoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient patron on the other.Trade ReviewDubrow’s attempt to renegotiate a definition of Petrarchism and its counterdiscourses ultimately succeeds because she insists on the value of traditional literary formalism, including attention to epigram and the treatment of literary genres as ‘metaphors for perspectives and attitudes. Her sensitive and nuanced close readings of verse reveal quite specifically how diacritical desire functions within these poems and how these poems, in turn, participate in a critical dialogue. This thoughtful and thought- provoking book deserves our attention. -- Jeffrey N. Nelson * Sixteenth Century Journal *This book is packed with research and revelations about the Renaissance lyric tradition, set forth in a consummate critical style. * Clio *
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Cornell University Press Persistence of Folly
Book SynopsisJoel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society.Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande's work conclusiTrade ReviewIn Persistence of Folly, Lande... provides a well-researched study of the fool in German literature from the time of the English comedians to the great Faust dramas and Heinrich von Kleist's Broken Jug.... This is a valuable resource on a significant topic. * Choice *It is the mark of a good teacher to present new knowledge in a way that inspires students to do their own thinking. Lande's book is an excellent seminar room—or traveling stage—for this kind of learning. Fittingly, he directs the fool to do this maieutic work, and the result is both entertaining and edifying * Goethe Yearbook *Persistence of Folly shows Lande's skill in implementing a large amount of historical and theoretical research to produce fascinating contributions to the way we read these plays. The book takes the reader on a journey along the fool's trajectory with carefully chosen examples that render his conclusions convincing and insightful, and pro- vides indispensable insights for any Goethe or Kleist scholar, or for those interested in German literary history in general. * European Romanitc Review *More than a literary history of German comedy or a study of the figure of the fool in dramatic texts, the analyses carried out in The Persistence of Folly exemplify and point to key methodological and theoretical reorientations of broader relevance * Modern Language Review *Photographic Literacy certainly offers a new way to think about the relationship between text and image in Russian modern culture. For this reason, it will doubtless be valuable not only to literary scholars and historians of photography, but also specialists in Russian cultural, social and intellectual history. * Europe-Asia Studies *Lande's book is a complex and interesting investigation into the role of the comic in the development of German theatre from its popular origins in the 17th century to its 'classical' phase around 1800 * Monatshefte *Lande's Persistence of Folly is one of the best works on German comedies in the Anglophone world in recent decades. It is an essential read for anyone interested in comedy studies and German literary history, and will appeal to scholars interested in form and genre theory as much as to scholars interested theories of performance * Athenäum: Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I The Fool at Play: Comic Practice and the Strolling Players 1. Birth of a Comic Form 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool 3. Practice of Stage Interaction 4. The Fool's Space and Time Part II Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Foolin the Age of Reform 5. Making Comedy Whole 6. Biases in Precedent 7. Sanitation and Unity 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time Part III Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight 10. The Place of Laughter in Life 11. National Literature I: Improvement 12. National Literature II: Custom Part IV The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faustand Kleist's Jug 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug Postlude Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Discourse of Modernism
Book SynopsisTimothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a radical break from the past but in fact develops directly from its predecessor.Trade ReviewThis is a difficult book which makes an interesting contribution to the history of ideas. It should be valued by those whose special field is seventeenth- or eighteenth- century literature and rhetoric, as well as by scholars of epistemology of aesthetic theory. Timothy J. Reiss is an erudite and provocative scholar. -- Kirsty Cochrane * Review of English Studies *
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Cornell University Press Frame Glass Verse
Book SynopsisIn a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thoughtfrom framing to perspective to reflectionRayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores the visual culture of the English Renaissance by way of the poetic image, showing that English writers avoided charges of idolatry and fancy through conceits that were visual, but not pictorial. Frames, mirrors, and windows have been pervasive and enduring metaphors for texts from classical antiquity to modernity; as a result, those metaphors seem universally to emphasize the mimetic function of language, dividing reality from the text that represents it. This book dissociates those metaphors from their earlier and later formulations in order to demonstrate that figurative language was material in translating signs and images out of a sacred and iconic context and into an aesthetic and representational one. ReaTrade ReviewIn Frame, Glass, Verse, Rayna Kalas shows the way the mindset worked when poesis was still the same as techne. In the figurative language and its subtle complexity and multiple meanings of Renaissance literature, she finds the conceptual frame, the reflective mirror or 'perspective glass,' the power of prosody and what Coleridge was to call 'the esemplastic power of the imagination.'... The result is nothing less than a new window opening on Renaissance literature. We see through this 'magic casement,' as Keats put it, the way those texts were first intended to be seen, not distorted by our more modern ways of thought or ideas about the nature and use of literature which was constructed and intended as a 'through-shine' communication but created by minds rather unlike our twenty-first century ones. * Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance *A welcome and persuasive book, not only for Renaissance scholars but for all readers of poetry and poetics. * Renaissance Quarterly *Probably the most exciting insight Kalas makes is that to frame meant, in essence, to make rather than to delineate, and that a revision in our understanding of the term necessitates a reconsideration of poetic making: words were understood as material and temporal matter, as distinguished from divine essence.... Overall this is an innovative, wide-ranging and provocative book. * Comitatus *Kalas is finely tuned to the work that words do. Throughout the book, Kalas unpacks poetic conceits, spins out elaborate etymologies, and follows Raymond Williams and Reinhart Koselleck in considering the ways in which key words can teach us about social and conceptual structures.... Frame, Glass, Verse will appeal to more than editors and critics: a contribution to the history of optics and philosophy as well as literature, this lucid and wide-ranging book has much to teach scholars who are interested in all aspects of Renaissance word and worldmaking. * Shakespeare Studies *This intelligent and subtle book joins a growing body of work that reinterprets Renaissance culture in light of the material conditions of lived experience.... Like a good steel glass, [this book] reflects an abundance of hard work and exquisite craftsmanship. * Modern Philology *
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Cornell University Press National Reckonings
Book SynopsisDuring the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent. National Reckonings shows how this widespread eschatological expectation shaped nationalist thinking in the seventeenth century. Imagining what Christ''s return would mean for England''s body politic, a wide range of poets, philosophers, and other writersincluding Milton, Hobbes, Winstanley, and Thomas and Henry Vaughan,used anticipation of the Last Judgment to both disrupt existing ideas of the nation and generate new ones. Ryan Hackenbracht contends that nationalism, consequently, was not merely a horizontal relationship between citizens and their sovereign but a vertical one that pitted the nation against the shortly expected kingdom of God. The Last Judgment was the site at which these two imagined communities, England and ecclesia (the universal churTrade ReviewNational Reckonings is a valuable addition to scholarship on the early-modern understanding of Judgment Day... Hackenbracht's scholarship is solid and needs to be considered and discussed. * Choice *National Reckonings succeeds in detailing the religious texture of early modern nationalism by offering a rich early modern social horizon, one in which ecclesia and the faithful remnant hold power alongside (often beyond) the emerging nation-state... National Reckonings will certainly appeal to Miltonists and scholars of the English revolution looking for a sophisticated yet lucid explication of the biblical roots of early modern political thought. * Renaissance Quarterly *National Reckonings offers a short, lucid, and provocative rereading of some key (and some unjustly neglected) texts of the tumultuous mid-seventeenth-century England. Hackenbracht's prose moves the reader easily and clearly among languages, authors, and genres. His command of Greek and Latin is impressive (he does his own translations of texts in both languages) and he renders the often-obscure prose of writers like Thomas Vaughan and Abiezer Coppe easily accessible in his paraphrases. This [is an] intriguing, thoughtful, and well-written book. * Milton Quarterly *With fresh readings of canonical figures such as Milton and Hobbes, as well as lesser-known religious and literary figures, National Reckonings provides a helpful resource for scholars of early modern religious and political thought. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
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Cornell University Press Theaters of Pardoning
Book SynopsisFrom Gerald Ford''s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump''s claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic theaters of pardoning in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty.Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare''s Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might otherwise have been a cycleTrade ReviewA valuable contribution to Law and Humanities scholarship and reflection on the future of liberal constitutionalism, Meyler's book cuts to the quick of pardoning practices from seventeenth-century England to contemporary America. Highlighting both the seemingly irresistible draw of pardoning as a theatrical assertion of sovereign power and the revolutionary opportunities latent in the uncoupling of sovereignty from the figure of the sovereign ruler, Meyler pierces the illusion of absolute authority and sets out an alternative Arendtian vision for the state grounded in forgiveness. * The New Rambler *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Theaters of Pardoning 1. Dramatic Judgments: Measure for Measure, Revenge, and the Institution of the Law 2. Emplotting Politics: James I and the "Powder Treason" 3. Non-Sovereign Forgiveness: Mercy among Equals in The Laws of Candy 4. From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman 5. Between Royal Pardons and Acts of Oblivion: The Transitional Justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton 6. Pardoning Revolution: The 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's Recentering of Sovereignty Postlude: Pardoning and Liberal Constitutionalism Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Civil Vengeance
Book SynopsisWhat is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnagethe duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicusemphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody revenge plays has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of societychurch, law, and educationrelied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragediTrade ReviewThis is an enjoyably ambitious, sophisticated, and subtle rethinking of the ways in which revenge permeated and preoccupied early modern English culture. * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Citation Introduction: Playing the Long Game 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Untold Futures
Book SynopsisIn Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place in time. The history of the future that Barret reconstructs looks beyond futures implicitly dismissed as impossible or aftertimes defined by inevitability and fixed perspective. Chapters on Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, and John Milton's Paradise Lost trace instead a persistent interest in an indeterminate, earthly future evident in literary constructions that foreground anticipation and expectation. Barret argues that the temporal perspectives embedded in these literary texts unsettle some of our most familiar points of Trade ReviewUntold Futures offers persuasive close analysis of the literary techniques and devices through which Barret suggests these writers were constantly 'capturing, pacing, arranging and reimagining linear time'.... [T]he future is destabilized, overdetermined, and ultimately, 'reliably, even permanently, ephemeral' in Untold Futures. This book succeeds in making us question not only the fixity of future times, but the very terms we use to describe this period in history itself. * Renaissance Quarterly *A smart and daring work of scholarship that speaks to some of the most pressing issues in the study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature today. Barret's argument ties together a novel critique of periodization with a sophisticated recuperation of the aesthetic, and her style of argumentation realizes an alternative critical model to the historicism that has long held sway over the field. Untold Futures should be read by anybody for whom the 'literary' in literary history still makes a difference, and should be required to be read by everybody for whom it does not. * Shakespeare Quarterly *Thought-provoking, insightful, and carefully crafted.... At the heart of Untold Futures, then, is a challenge to familiar teleologies. Calvinist election, secularist science, the humanist recovery of antiquity: all are in play as these authors pose alternative conceptions of future time, but none of these developments explains early modern temporal consciousness as these literary works envision it. Barret instead credits literature itself for constructing new modes of temporality. * Journal of British History *One of the many things that makes this book impressive is the fact that Barret is not just a skilled intellectual and literary historian, but also an expert close-reader. She manages to weave big ideas through the complex particularities of literary language without losing any of the latter's nuance or energy. * Studies in English Literature *Barret's way of thinking and challenging the habitual perceptions of time are groundbreaking. * The Sixteenth Century Journal *The book is a shot in the arm for critics wondering about the direction literary scholarship will take in the years and decades to come. Fortunately, Barret makes a strong case that the future is wide open. * Comitatus *A thought-provoking, insightful, and carefully crafted book. * Journal of British Studies *Barret does a fine job articulating technical and historically sited arguments in accessible language, and she avoids contemporary theoretical jargon in favor of broad engagement with a refreshingly diverse range of scholarly approaches. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Promising the Future: The Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia 2. The History of the Future: Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the Directions of Time 3. The Fiction of the Future: Dangerous Reading in Titus Andronicus 4. Shakespeare's Second Future: Anticipatory Nostalgia in Cymbeline 5. Imminent Futures: Absent Art and Improvised Rhyme in Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline Afterword: Circles of the Future: Memory or Monument in Paradise Lost
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Cornell University Press Unfelt
Book SynopsisUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Surveying a range of affects including primary sensation, love and self-love, greed, happiness, and patriotic ardor, James Noggle explores literary evocations of imperceptibility and unfeeling that pervade and support the period''s understanding of sensibility.Each of the four sections of Unfelton philosophy, the novel, historiography, and political economycharts the development of these idioms from early in the long eighteenth century to their culmination in the age of sensibility. From Locke to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and from Dudley North to Hume and Adam Smith, Noggle''s exploration of the insensible dramatically expands the scope of affect in the pTrade ReviewNoggle's superlative study traces unfelt tributaries of affect that, though not immediately perceptible, nevertheless flow together into the kinds of sea-changes that we might call identity formation, character development, or, on a much larger scale, social evolution writ large.... Precise, forthright, and circumspect... Unfelt is a book for scholars of the long eighteenth century, and it unquestionably succeeds as such. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *James Noggle's Unfelt offers both genealogy and endorsement. Unfelt is a densely theorized book. * Modern Language Quarterly *Noggle's account certainly represents one of the most careful dialogues I've seen yet between eighteenth-century literary studies and the broader Spinozist paradigm of affect theory. * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unfelt Affect 1. Philosophy: Affective Nonconsciousness 1.1. The Insensible Parts of Locke's Essay 1.2. David Hartley's Ghost Matter 1.3. Vivacity and Insensible Association: Condillac and Hume 1.4. Sentiment and Secret Consciousness: Haywood and Smith 2. Fiction: Unfelt Engagement 2.1. Unfeeling before Sensibility 2.2. External and Invisible 2.3. Insensible against Involuntary in Burney 2.4. Austen as Coda 3. Historiography: Insensible Revolutions 3.1. The Force of the Thing: Unfelt Moeurs in French Historiography 3.2. The Insensible Revolution and Scottish Historiography 3.3. Gibbon in History 3.4. The Embrace of Unfeeling 4. Political Economy: Moving with Money 4.1. Mandeville and the Other Happiness 4.2. Feeling Untaxed 4.3. The Money Flow 4.4. Invisible versus Insensible Epilogue: Insensible Emergence of Ideology
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Cornell University Press Irregular Unions
Book SynopsisKatharine Cleland''s Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England.The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authorsTrade ReviewCleland's book represents an important step forward in contextualizing early modern English literature. This book enriches that scholarship by providing a deeper understanding of the many types of marriages portrayed in early modern literature and how they reflect the social anxieties of the period. Clearly written and tightly argued, the book should be of interest to scholars of literature and history. * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making a Clandestine Match in Early Modern English Literature 1. Reforming Clandestine Marriage in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I 2. "Wanton Loves and Young Desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation 3. Sacred Ceremonies and Private Contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint 4. "Lorenzo and His Infidel": Elopement and the Cross-Cultural Household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice 5. "Are You Fast Married?": Elopement and Turning Turk in Shakespeare's Othello Conclusion: Incestuous Clandestine Marriage in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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Cornell University Press The Beautiful Soul Aesthetic Morality in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNorton's book is to be commended for casting fresh and invigorating light on the living relevance of eighteenth-century intellectual problems to one of the central preoccupations of such modern thinkers as Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Richard Rorty. * Modern Language Review *The Beautiful Soul is an important and fascinating book which traces the rise and fall of what Robert E. Norton takes to be one of the European Enlightenment's most characteristic ideas —that there might be an intrinsic link between ethics and aesthetics, the good and the beautiful, which manifested itself in the concept of the 'beautiful soul.' * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *Norton's book is a fine contribution to scholarship, one that is well worth pondering. * The Journal of English and Germanic Philology *
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Cornell University Press The Life of Wisdom in Rousseaus Reveries of the
Book SynopsisThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau''s Reveries of the Solitary Walker is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau''s final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing''s complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of lifeand how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering.Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made centraland that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of human Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "First Walk"—Rousseau's Introduction 2. "Second Walk"—Nature, Mortality, God 3. "Third Walk"—A Spiritual-Religious Autobiography 4. "Fourth Walk"—The Virtue of Truthfulness 5. "Fifth Walk"—Happiness 6. "Sixth Walk"—Goodness versus Virtue 7. "Seventh Walk"—Botany as Consuming "Amusement" 8. "8"—Renewed Self-exploration 9. "9" and "10"—The Solitary Walker's "Truly Loving Heart"
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