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  • Anatomical Forms

    The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry

    by Whitney Sperrazza ...
    Series series Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
    Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Anatomical Forms

    The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry

    by Whitney Sperrazza ...
    Series series Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
    Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism

    by Gabriel Egan ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents:an overview of the concept of ecocriticismdetailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, ... ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Poetry in English

    Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

    Edited by Catherine Bates, Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Oxford History of Poetry in English
    The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Renaissance Paratexts

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance

    1550–1700

    by Susan Wiseman ...
    Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Edited by Valerie Traub ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Subtle Knot

    Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience

    by Lianne Habinek ...
    In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right.Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies

    Edited by John Lee ...
    Series series Critical Theory Handbooks
    Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond ShakespeareA Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading ... Read more

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  • The Sound of Shakespeare

    by Wes Folkerth ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture.In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Body Emblazoned

    Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

    by Jonathan Sawday ...
    An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD