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1. Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture

   Artificial Slaves

   By Kevin LaGrandeur

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Reading the Early Modern Dream

   The Terrors of the Night

   Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

   By Alison Chapman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

   By Randall Martin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature

   Green Pastures

   By Todd A. Borlik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this timely new study, Todd A. 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...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

   Edited by Rebecca Totaro, Ernest B. Gilman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama

   Economies of Vengeance

   By Chris McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture

   By Nina Taunton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

   People, Things, Forms of Knowledge

   Edited by Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

    Edited by Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose...

    Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge