Renaissance Transformations : : The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 / / Margaret Healy, Thomas Healy.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748638734);Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 asserts the centrality of historical understanding in shaping critical vision. This collection of distinctive new essays explores the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture
  • Chapter 1. Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing
  • Chapter 2. Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse
  • Chapter 3. Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates
  • Chapter 4. ‘Not without Mustard’: Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London
  • Part II. Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History
  • Chapter 5. The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship Through Collaboration
  • Chapter 6. The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community
  • Chapter 7. Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing
  • Chapter 8. The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing
  • Part III. Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances
  • Chapter 9. Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry
  • Chapter 10. Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions
  • Chapter 11. Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest
  • Chapter 12. ‘A Cat On A Post’: Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index