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  • England's Asian Renaissance

    by Abdulhamit Arvas, Richmond Barbour, Thea Buckley, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Amrita Sen, Emily Soon ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Encountering China

    Early Modern European Responses

    Edited by Qinjun Li, Rachana Sachdev ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices. Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not just as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The West

    A New History in Fourteen Lives

    by Naoíse Mac Sweeney ...
    **“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece ... Read more

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  • England in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

    Edited by Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Othello's Secret

    The Cyprus Problem

    by R M Christofides ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and military anxieties connected by Shakespeare, Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions rooted in the 16th ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Narrating the Crusades

    Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

    by Lee Manion ...
    Series Book 90 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    by Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Once Upon the Orient Wave

    Milton and the Arab Muslim World

    by Eid Abdallah Dahiyat ...
    In an unusual view of one of the English language's greatest writers, an Arab scholar analyzes the oriental influences on Milton's work, and Milton's own influence on Arab writers and critics John Milton's great poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, are among the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. Like other writers of his time, Milton had only a sketchy idea of Islam and ... Read more

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  • Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

    by Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial identity, but also how race was initially coded in a paradoxical fashion as both essentially fixed ... Read more

    $67.99 USD