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.
Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Kathleen Smith
December 10, 2019
This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech ...
John Bunyan�s Imaginary Writings in Context
1st Edition
By Nancy Rosenfeld
December 10, 2019
Within the last half-century, early scholarly approaches and analysis of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress have seen siginificant advances in mandating and enabling a more contextualized view of Bunyan’s oeuvre. Utilizing this fresh examination of context, John Bunyan’s Imaginary Writings in Context...
Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward
December 10, 2019
Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through ...
Moral Play and Counterpublic
1st Edition
By Ineke Murakami
December 10, 2019
In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative ...
Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine: The Renaissance of the Body
1st Edition
By Charis Charalampous
December 10, 2019
This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, with desires, appetites, and understandings independent of the mind. It considers the works of early ...
Satire in the Elizabethan Era: An Activistic Art
1st Edition
By William Jones
December 10, 2019
This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological "perceptual translation." This reshaping of cultural orthodoxies is interpreted in this study as both ...
Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection
1st Edition
Edited
By John S. Garrison, Kyle Pivetti
December 10, 2019
This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated ...
Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative
1st Edition
By James Loxley, Mark Robson
December 10, 2019
This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to:show how the investigation of performativity can enable ...
The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values
1st Edition
By Thomas L Martin, Duke Pesta
December 10, 2019
The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major ...
Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Daisy Murray
December 10, 2019
This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of ...
Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance: Readers and Audiences
1st Edition
By Akihiro Yamada
July 31, 2019
This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance. Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the ...
Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
1st Edition
By Marsha S. Collins
May 21, 2019
From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a ...