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  • Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

    Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace ... Leer más

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  • Knights in Arms

    Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655

    Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity – commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant.Knights in Arms ... Leer más

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  • Timely Voices

    Romance Writing in English Literature

    Edición de Goran Stanivukovic ...
    From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing.Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read ... Leer más

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    "Heroines of French Society" by Mrs. Bearne is a captivating exploration of the influential women who shaped French culture and society. Through vivid storytelling, Bearne brings to life the remarkable achievements and struggles of these heroines, highlighting their roles in various spheres such as politics, art, and social reform. The book serves as both a tribute and a historical account, ... Leer más

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  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

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  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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    de John Foxe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of ... Leer más

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  • The Church in the Early Modern Age

    Series series I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
    The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early modern Christianity re-oriented the Church to such an extent that they gave rise to new versions of ... Leer más

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  • The Heights: A dark story of obsession and revenge

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  • The Material Culture of the Jacobites

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  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

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    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 ... Leer más

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