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  • Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women

    Edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Adrea Johnson ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, dis/ability, geography, and historical circumstance. It presents thirteen original case studies on the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

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  • The History of Emotions

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Dixon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Used Books

    Marking Readers in Renaissance England

    by William H. Sherman ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How Soon Is Now?

    Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

    by Carolyn Dinshaw ...
    How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

    Edited by Arthur F. Kinney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Staging Harmony

    Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

    by Katherine Steele Brokaw ...
    In Staging Harmony**, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions**. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily effects that allow performed music to evoke the feeling, if not always the reality, of social ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

    Performance, Geography, Privacy

    Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    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 the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

    Edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of ... Read more

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