Memory And Mortality In Renaissance England
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Memory And Mortality In Renaissance England
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Author : William E. Engel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Memory And Mortality In Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.
Memory And Mortality In Renaissance England
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Author : William E. Engel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Memory And Mortality In Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
The Death Arts In Renaissance England
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Author : William E. Engel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-08
The Death Arts In Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
Memories Of War In Early Modern England
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Author : Susan Harlan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-23
Memories Of War In Early Modern England written by Susan Harlan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.
Memory And Forgetting In English Renaissance Drama
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Author : Garrett A. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-29
Memory And Forgetting In English Renaissance Drama written by Garrett A. Sullivan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Engaging debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter providing a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.
The Shakespearean Death Arts
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Author : William E. Engel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-05-05
The Shakespearean Death Arts written by William E. Engel and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.
News Memory And The Culture Of The Stuart Intervention Into The Thirty Years War 1624 1630
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Author : Tamsin Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-07-16
News Memory And The Culture Of The Stuart Intervention Into The Thirty Years War 1624 1630 written by Tamsin Pritchard and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-16 with History categories.
Just as Charles I’s reign ended upon the scaffold at the close of the British Civil Wars, it began in a disastrous entry into the Thirty Years' War. By studying the movement of people—soldiers, refugees, diplomats, exiles, merchants, and artists—and news and ideas between the Stuart kingdoms and the war-torn Continent, this book argues that the Thirty Years' War was the defining issue of the beginning of the young king’s reign. This interdisciplinary cultural history brings together the words and images of these violent beginnings: the bellicose days.
Grief And Women Writers In The English Renaissance
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Author : Elizabeth Hodgson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Grief And Women Writers In The English Renaissance written by Elizabeth Hodgson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.
Historicizing The Embodied Imagination In Early Modern English Literature
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Author : Mark Kaethler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-07-07
Historicizing The Embodied Imagination In Early Modern English Literature written by Mark Kaethler and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literature’s intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To recover the pre-Cartesian imagination, this collection of essays takes a historicist approach by situating literary texts within the embodied and ensouled faculty system. Image-making and fantasizing were not autonomous activities but belonged to a greater cognitive ecosystem, which the volume’s four sections reflect: “The Visual Imagination,” “Sensory and Affective Imaginings,” “Artifice and the Mnemonic Imagination,” and “Higher Imaginings.” Together they accentuate the imagination’s interdependency and friction with other faculties. Ultimately, the volume’s attention to the embodied imagination gives scholars new perspectives on literary and image production in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and their contemporaries.
Religion And Culture In Renaissance England
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Author : Claire McEachern
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-28
Religion And Culture In Renaissance England written by Claire McEachern and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.