Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
From Shakespeare to Jonson, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture looks at both the literature and culture of the early modern period. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside theatre, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England: Sir Robert Sidney and His Contemporaries
1st Edition
By Erika D'Souza
May 27, 2024
Robert Sidney, the first Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), serves as an exemplar of an Elizabethan nobleman who had in his collection a body of work pertinent to the subject of masculine honour in the private realm. Understanding the nuances and evolution of the term private honour as it is ...
The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624–2024
1st Edition
Edited
By William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, Sam Jermy
April 02, 2024
This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The collection is divided into three sections: ‘Critical and Textual Reception’, ‘Afterlives and Legacies’, ...
Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof
1st Edition
By Michael Slater
April 02, 2024
Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly ...
Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent: Mary Sidney Herbert, Mary Sidney Wroth, and their Genealogical Cultures
1st Edition
By Marie H. Loughlin
September 25, 2023
Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other ...
From Narcissism to Nihilism: Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature
1st Edition
By Anthony Archdeacon
September 25, 2023
This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship. In early modern literature, there were expressions ...
Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabel Jaén, Julien Jacques Simon
June 30, 2023
This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors ...
Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History
1st Edition
By Sofie Kluge
May 31, 2023
Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern ...
Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640
1st Edition
By Alice Equestri
May 31, 2023
Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays ...
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603–1612
1st Edition
By Allison L. Steenson
May 31, 2023
This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern ...
Women (Re)Writing Milton
1st Edition
Edited
By Mandy Green, Sharihan Al-Akhras
May 31, 2023
This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through ...
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy
1st Edition
By Iman Sheeha
February 01, 2022
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, ...
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other”
1st Edition
By Matthieu Chapman
January 17, 2019
This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages...