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Early Modern Literature in History

General Editors:

Professor Cedric Brown, University of Reading

Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

Editorial Board:

Sharon Achinstein (University of Oxford), John Kerrigan (University of Cambridge), Donna Hamilton, (University of Maryland), Jean Howard (Columbia University), Richard McCoy (City University of New York)

Early Modern Literature in History is a well established series discussing literature within the period 1520-1740. Titles explore many kinds of canonical and non-canonical writing. Whilst employing a range of theoretical perspectives, titles share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures.

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Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Shakespeare and Religious Change Early Modern Literature in History Edited by Kenneth J. E. Graham and Philip D. Collington Palgrave Macmillan This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the...

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	Marlowe's Republican Authorship Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime Early Modern Literature in History Patrick Cheney Palgrave Macmillan This book argues broadly that any historical narrative about republicanism needs to place Marlowe at the front of its genealogy, and that his interest in...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Quoting Death in Early Modern England The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb Early Modern Literature in History Scott L. Newstok Palgrave Macmillan An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre The Children's Playing Companies (1599-1613) Early Modern Literature in History Edel Lamb Palgrave Macmillan This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature The Poetics of All Believers Early Modern Literature in History Gregory Kneidel Palgrave Macmillan Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate...

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	The Religions of the Book Co-Existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 Early Modern Literature in History Edited by Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield Palgrave Macmillan This book is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period.

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	English Historical Drama, 1500-1660 Forms Outside the Canon Early Modern Literature in History Edited by Teresa Grant and Barbara Ravelhofer Palgrave Macmillan This collection establishes alternative paradigms of early modern historical drama.

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England Indelible Characters Early Modern Literature in History David Coleman Palgrave Macmillan This book is a scholarly examination of the relationship between sacramental controversy and dramatic production in sixteenth-century England.

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance Relative Values Early Modern Literature in History Marion Wynne-Davies Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, but simultaneously closeted them within a...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England Early Modern Literature in History Edited by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. Palgrave Macmillan Focusing on selfhood, embodiment and environment in the early modern world, this volume approaches a range of literary and cultural texts from an ecological...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Reading Sensations in Early Modern England Early Modern Literature in History Katharine Craik Palgrave Macmillan This is the first study of the origins of pornography in early modern practices of reading and writing. Craik explores connections between literature, the...

Hardcover : $84.95 Buy	The Law in Shakespeare Early Modern Literature in History Edited by Karen Cunningham and Constance Jordan Palgrave Macmillan Focusing on a burgeoning area of interest, this new study illustrates relations between legal and theatrical discourses in a range of plays.

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith History, Religion and the Stage Early Modern Literature in History Jean-Christophe Mayer Palgrave Macmillan This book offers a complete review of current scholarship on Shakespeare and religion and a fresh perspective on the vexed question of the dramatist's...

Hardcover : $84.95 Buy	Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture Early Modern Literature in History Tobias Döring Palgrave Macmillan This bold and wide-ranging study takes a fresh look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century Laws in Mourning Early Modern Literature in History Andrea Brady Palgrave Macmillan Examining the funerary elegy in the context of early modern funerary ritual, this book also analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral, and religious...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621 The Politics of Absence Early Modern Literature in History Rosalind Smith Palgrave Macmillan This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences in comparison with Continental women writers and English male authors....

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England Early Modern Literature in History William M. Hamlin Palgrave Macmillan Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient skepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England....

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Royalist Identities Early Modern Literature in History Jerome de Groot Palgrave Macmillan Royalist Identities shifts the emphasis from the question "What is Royalism?" to "What did Royalism want to be?" The texts analyzed show how Royalism was...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play Early Modern Literature in History Dermot Cavanagh Palgrave Macmillan Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by...

Hardcover : $125.00 Buy	Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse Early Modern Literature in History Elizabeth Heale Palgrave Macmillan The advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-16th century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version...

Hardcover : $135.00 Buy	Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England Early Modern Literature in History Sasha Roberts Palgrave Macmillan This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript. Reading Shakespeare's Poems...

Hardcover : $135.00 Buy	Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture Early Modern Literature in History Mark Thornton Burnett Palgrave Macmillan Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. The...

Hardcover : $125.00 Buy	Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 Early Modern Literature in History Edited by James Daybell Palgrave Macmillan This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late 15th to the early 18th century. It is the first book to deal...

Hardcover : $135.00 Buy	'This Double Voice' Gendered Writing in Early Modern England Early Modern Literature in History Danielle and Elizabeth Clarke Palgrave Macmillan The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write...

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