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.
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, ...
John Dryden and His Readers: 1700
1st Edition
By Winifred Ernst
December 13, 2021
Dryden at the end of his life was admired, perhaps even beloved, by many in England, and his greatest skill over his long career—his controlled detachment—uniquely positioned him to write of both history and politics in 1700. His narrative poetry was popular among Whigs and Tories, women and men, ...
Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature
1st Edition
By Dan Mills
December 13, 2021
Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The present volume instead focuses on subjectivity in early modern English utopian writing by using these ...
Milton and the New Scientific Age: Poetry, Science, Fiction
1st Edition
By Catherine Martin
December 13, 2021
Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and ...
Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation: Reading through the Spirit
1st Edition
By David Ainsworth
December 13, 2021
Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation: Reading through the Spirit constructs a musical methodology for interpreting literary text drawn out of John Milton’s poetry and prose. Analyzing the linkage between music and the Holy Spirit in Milton’s work, it focuses on harmony and its relationship to ...
Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature: Exploring Abraham Cowley
1st Edition
By Philip Major
December 13, 2021
Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from ...
Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal
1st Edition
By Gregory B. Stone
September 30, 2021
Guido Cavalcanti, Dante’s intellectual mentor, is widely considered among the greatest Italian lyric poets; his famous and notoriously difficult philosophical canzone Donna me prega is often characterized as the most studied lyric poem in Italian literature. This book situates Cavalcanti’s poetry ...
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Jane Wong
June 30, 2021
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This ...
Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton: Trouble in the Walled City
1st Edition
By Adam N. McKeown
June 30, 2021
Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and ...
Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser
1st Edition
By Bradley Tuggle
June 30, 2021
Renaissance humanism takes as one of its subjects for inquiry the category of the human itself. As Intricate Movements: Experimental Thinking and Human Analogies in Sidney and Spenser shows, late sixteenth-century English poets found some remarkably radical ways to interrogate and redefine the ...
Donne’s God
1st Edition
By P.M. Oliver
September 30, 2020
His contemporaries recognised John Donne (1572-1631) as a completely new kind of poet. He was, wrote one enthusiast, ‘Copernicus in Poetrie’. But in the winter of 1614-15 Donne abandoned part-time versification for full-time priestly ministry, quickly becoming one of the most popular preachers of ...