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  • The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture

    From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn

    by Gary Waller ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva's ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque

    by Gary Waller ...
    Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying ideological ‘structure of feeling’ of baroque culture in early modern England. The book extends the mode of analysis of The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Walsingham and the English Imagination

    by Gary Waller ...
    Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, medieval England's most significant pilgrimage site devoted to the Virgin Mary, which was revived in the twentieth century, and in 2006 voted Britain's favorite religious site. Covering ... Read more

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  • The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture

    by Gary Waller ...
    This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    We had our first conversation about cognition, metacognition, and reading in September of 1976. Our particular concern was with reading and learning to read, and what, if anything, meta cognition might have to do with it all. We didn't really know much about metacognition then, of course, but then most other people were in the same predicament. Some people had been working with interesting ... Read more

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  • Chaplaincy in Hospice and Palliative Care

    Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular society?A comprehensive look at why and how this work needs to be done, each chapter will be a ... Read more

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  • English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century

    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period. ... Read more

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  • Mary Sidney Herbert

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 6

    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Mary Sidney (1562-1620), Countess of Pembroke, was born into one of England’s most prominent literary and political families. She was fluent in at least three languages and was an accomplished translator and poet. Her two translations from the French, A Discourse of Life and Death, by Philippe de Mornay, and Antonius, a TragÅ“die, by Robert Garnier were published together in 1592 by William ... Read more

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  • Celebrations and Observances of the Church Year

    Leading Meaningful Services from Advent to All Saints' Day

    When God established His covenant with Israel, He gave them a calendar of observances and festivals to celebrate so they would always remember their historical journey, their salvation, and, most importantly, their God. Like the Jewish calendar, the Christian year continues the celebration of God's covenant by focusing on the life and ministry of Christ. Remembering and celebrating the events of ... Read more

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  • Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture

    The Poet in his Time and in Ours

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture is a collection of essays which reflect the diversity of contemporary approaches to the controversial figure of Sir Philip Sidney, and range from the ‘historicist’ to the ‘revisionist’. Interest in the work of Sir Philip Sidney, in the cultural significance of his ‘Circle’ in the late Elizabethan age and the ... Read more

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  • Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity

    Edited by Dominic Janes, Gary Waller ...
    Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • All's Well, That Ends Well

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Gary Waller ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and presents a broad range of approaches to it, including historical, feminist, performative and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD