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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture


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From Shakespeare to Jonson, Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture looks at both the literature and culture of the early modern period. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside theatre, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern Literature

New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern Literature

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Edited By Gail Kern Paster, Nick Moschovakis
August 19, 2024

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors’ introduction—a far-reaching account of how both methods have intersected in studies of early modern English texts since the 1990s—is the first such survey in ...

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama Plotting Revenge

Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama: Plotting Revenge

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By Linc Kesler
July 17, 2024

The opening of the first commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped representation. The competition among theatres required the constant production of new works, creating an interplay between the innovations of producers and the rapidly changing ...

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624–2024

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624–2024

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Edited By William David Green, Anna L. Hegland, Sam Jermy
April 02, 2024

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s final and most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The collection is divided into three sections: ‘Critical and Textual Reception’, ‘Afterlives and Legacies’, ...

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution Forms of Proof

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof

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By Michael Slater
April 02, 2024

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly ...

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

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By David A. Harper
December 20, 2023

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden, Addison, Dennis, Hume, and Bentley) confronted a poem ...

Human Insufficiency Natural Slavery and the Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern England

Human Insufficiency: Natural Slavery and the Racialization of Vulnerability in Early Modern England

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By Jeffrey B. Griswold
October 31, 2023

Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature—“poor” and “bare” in King Lear’s words—strategically portrayed English bodies as needing care from people who ...

Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent Mary Sidney Herbert, Mary Sidney Wroth, and their Genealogical Cultures

Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent: Mary Sidney Herbert, Mary Sidney Wroth, and their Genealogical Cultures

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By Marie H. Loughlin
September 25, 2023

Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other ...

From Narcissism to Nihilism Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature

From Narcissism to Nihilism: Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature

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By Anthony Archdeacon
September 25, 2023

This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship. In early modern literature, there were expressions ...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658

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By Christopher Orchard
July 31, 2023

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist...

Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind

Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind

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Edited By Isabel Jaén, Julien Jacques Simon
June 30, 2023

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors ...

Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age The Poetics of History

Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History

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By Sofie Kluge
May 31, 2023

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period’s own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern ...

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

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By Alice Equestri
May 31, 2023

Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays ...

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