The Production of English Renaissance Culture

The Production of English Renaissance Culture
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9781501744686
ISBN-13 : 1501744682
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Production of English Renaissance Culture by : David Lee Miller

What is the relationship between the cultural artifacts of Renaissance England and the processes of production, exchange, and accumulation through which they were brought into being? Pursuing this question, a group of distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic exemplifies a number of different approaches to the writing of cultural history.

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 792
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ISBN-10 : 9780470998724
ISBN-13 : 0470998725
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by : Michael Hattaway

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 1264
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ISBN-10 : 1444319027
ISBN-13 : 9781444319026
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by : Michael Hattaway

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of theCompanion, 80 scholars come together to offer an originaland far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature andculture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to EnglishRenaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 newessays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H.Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer,Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, RobertMiola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literaryand cultural territories the Companion offers new readingsof both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing,the history of the body, theatre both in and outside theplayhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advancedstudents and faculty with new directions for theirresearch All of the essays from the first edition, along with therecommendations for further reading, have been reworked orupdated

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780198878025
ISBN-13 : 0198878028
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis English Renaissance Manuscript Culture by : Steven W. May

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds—works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.

The Production of English Renaissance Culture

The Production of English Renaissance Culture
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 0801429617
ISBN-13 : 9780801429613
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Synopsis The Production of English Renaissance Culture by : David Lee Miller

What is the relationship between the cultural artifacts of Renaissance England and the processes of production, exchange, and accumulation through which they were brought into being? Pursuing this question, a group of distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic exemplifies a number of different approaches to the writing of cultural history.

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 750
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ISBN-10 : 9783110444889
ISBN-13 : 3110444887
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of English Renaissance Literature by : Ingo Berensmeyer

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture

Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 0521455898
ISBN-13 : 9780521455893
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture by : Margreta de Grazia

This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.

Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature

Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0252026330
ISBN-13 : 9780252026331
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature by : Linda Woodbridge

Woodbridge shows that the prevailing image of the vagrant poor in Renaissance England--sturdy, comical, resourceful rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society--was essentially a literary fabrication pressed into the service of specific social and political agendas.

The Culture of Violence

The Culture of Violence
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0226037185
ISBN-13 : 9780226037189
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Culture of Violence by : Francis Barker

'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power. The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9789004242036
ISBN-13 : 9004242031
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance Cultural Crossroads by : Sara K. Barker

In Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640, twelve scholars assemble the latest interdisciplinary research in the fields of translation and print in Britain and appraise for the first time the connection between the two. The section Translation and Early Print discusses how translation shaped the beginnings of British book production. 'Translation, Fiction and Print' examines some Italian and Spanish literary translations and their paratexts. Instruction through Translation demonstrates how translators established an international fund of knowledge. Shaping Mind and Nation through Translation focusses on translations specifically disseminating knowledge of medicine, navigation, military matters, and news. The volume constitutes a timely contribution to the ever-expanding fields of translation studies and print history but is also relevant to cultural, social and intellectual history.