New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture: Confluences and Contexts
About the Book Series
This interdisciplinary series publishes manuscripts from a wide range of fields, including but not limited to literature, history, art history, musicology, philosophy, religion and political science, in order to cultivate a truly multifaceted understanding of the early modern period. This series offers innovative scholarship that models interdisciplinary methodologies to emerging scholars and students and publishes books that show how paradigm shifts in knowledge happen when disciplines cross-fertilize and share the fruits of their labor.
The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England: Rival Media in the Process of Poetic Invention
1st Edition
By Deborah Solomon
December 30, 2022
This book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The ...
Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France
1st Edition
By Ann T. Delehanty
December 16, 2022
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. ...
Music and Power in Early Modern Spain: Harmonic Spheres of Influence
1st Edition
By Timothy M. Foster
November 30, 2021
This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator. The Harmony of Spheres was not ideologically neutral but rather tied ...
Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations
1st Edition
By Jo Eldridge Carney
October 28, 2021
This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. ...
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage: Mad World, Mad Kings
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
September 30, 2021
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Although there have been numerous volumes examining the medical and social dimensions of mental illness in the early modern period, and a few that have ...