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  • A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance

    Edited by Edith Snook ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magic, courtship, and art, amongst other things. On the body, Renaissance men and women often considered hair a signifier of order and civility. Hair style and the head coverings worn by many throughout the period marked not only the wearer's engagement ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

    by Edith Snook ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

    A Feminist Literary History

    by Edith Snook ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

    Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650

    by Duncan Salkeld ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • 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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  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

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  • European Literary History

    An Introduction

    Edited by Maarten De Pourcq, Sophie Levie ...
    This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edited by Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in ... Read more

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  • Tragedy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Adrian Poole ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and journalists over the last two and a half millennia? Why do we still read, re-write, and stage these ... Read more

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  • Reading Shakespeare Historically

    by Lisa Jardine ...
    Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Ephemeral History of Perfume

    Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

    by Holly Dugan ...
    In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about ... Read more

    $58.19 USD

  • Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England

    Sir Robert Sidney and His Contemporaries

    by Erika D'Souza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    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 represented in Sidney’s artefacts, as well as in the public discourse of the era, is the work and contribution ... Read more

    $57.99 USD