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.
Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage
1st Edition
By Ariane M. Balizet
August 23, 2018
In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the ...
Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
By Alison Chapman
May 31, 2017
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron ...
Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves
1st Edition
By Kevin LaGrandeur
February 16, 2017
Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots ...
Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America: Circles in the Sand
1st Edition
By Jess Edwards
April 27, 2016
The early modern map has come to mark the threshold of modernity, cutting through the layered customs of Medieval parochialism with its clean, expansive geometries. Re-thinking the role played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book argues that the cultural ...
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Brady, Emily Butterworth
April 23, 2015
Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the ...
Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard
November 10, 2014
This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose ...
Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan
September 11, 2014
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the ...
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams
April 09, 2014
This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory."...
Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth D. Harvey, Theresa Krier
April 09, 2014
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the ...
Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Randall Martin
October 10, 2012
This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are ...
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures
1st Edition
By Todd A. Borlik
May 30, 2012
In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he ...
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman
April 20, 2012
This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on ...