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  • Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

    de Bonnie Lander Johnson ...
    The Shakespearean stage offered London playgoers a glimpse of the illiterate and rural plant cultures rapidly disappearing from their increasingly urban and sophisticated lives. The same cultures also circulated in popular texts offstage: bawdy tree ballads, botanical tales, almanacs and accounts of kitchen physic. Here Bonnie Lander Johnson argues that, while Shakespeare's plants offered ... Leer más

    $90.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants

    Edición de Bonnie Lander Johnson ...
    The first of its kind, this wide-ranging, accessible handbook covers literary engagement with plants in over two thousand years of writing from around the world. It includes within its broad ambit historical periods of Latin, Norse and Anglophone plant literatures, prominent plant genres, and the literatures of major global regions. Chapters explore the history of literary thinking about plants as ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

    de Bonnie Lander Johnson ...
    In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed the construction of different literary genres. Drawing on a range of materials, from prose to theatre, theological controversy to legal trials, and court ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Blood Matters

    Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17

    Edición de Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp ...
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • Blood Matters

    Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17

    Edición de Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp ...
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edición de Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Ephemeral History of Perfume

    Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • What Else Is Pastoral?

    Renaissance Literature and the Environment

    de Ken Hiltner ...
    Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature

    Green Pastures

    de Todd A. Borlik ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    de Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Leer más

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  • Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II

    England’s Paradise

    de Amy L. Tigner ...
    Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England. In the first part of the study, Amy L. Tigner traces the conceptual forms that the paradise ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The World According to Color

    A Cultural History

    de James Fox ...
    A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD