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  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

    Modifié par James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
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    The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of ... En savoir plus

    $93.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain

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

    $93.99 CAD

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  • Invisible Agents

    Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

    par Nadine Akkerman ...
    It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's ... En savoir plus

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    par Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    par Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... En savoir plus

    $11.89 CAD

  • Pure Wit

    The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

    par Francesca Peacock ...
    A biography of the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel."My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world."—Margaret CavendishMargaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon

    par Nigel Smith ...

    $49.99 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to John Skelton

    par Professor Sebastian I. Sobecki, John A. Burrow, John Scattergood, Julia Boffey, Nadine Kuipers, Thomas Betteridge, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Carol Meale, David R. Carlson0, Elisabeth Dutton1, Greg Waite2, Helen Cooper3, Jane Griffiths4 ...
    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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

    Modifié par Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight ...
    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD

  • Lying in Early Modern English Culture

    From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance

    par Andrew Hadfield ...
    Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Paratexts

    Modifié par Helen Smith, Louise Wilson ...
    In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare

    Modifié par R. Malcolm Smuts ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in ... En savoir plus

    $45.59 CAD