Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways / / Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hopkins, Lisa,; Angus, Bill,
• MitwirkendeR: Allport Reid, Jennifer,; Angus, Bill,; Borlik, Todd Andrew,; Dokurno, Karalyn,; Durban, Kim,; Emmerichs, Sharon,; Equestri, Alice,; Frazer, Paul,; Hopkins, Lisa,; Johnson, Laurie,; Russell, Martha Lynn,; Stagg, Robert,; Wynne-Davies, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhances historical understanding of the literal place of theatre in the road networks around early modern LondonProvides a crucial ligature in English literary and cultural history. The present plays and prose are prolegomena to the travel literature of Montagu, Swift, Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides, Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, Fielding’s Tom Jones, and peripatetic Civil War narrativesThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road -- I. Shakespeare’s Roads -- 1 The Low Road and the High Road: Macbeth and the Way to Scotland -- 2 Uncolting Falstaff: The Oats Complex and Energy Crisis in 1 Henry IV -- 3 The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake: Shakespeare and the Outcast Dead -- 4 Gender, Vagrancy and the Culture of the Early Modern Road in As You Like It -- 5 Traversing Monstrosity: Perilous Women and Powerful Men upon Shakespeare’s Roads -- II. The Embodied Road -- 6 Not So Tedious Ways to Think about the Locations of the Early Playhouses -- 7 Wandering Fools and Foolish Vagrants: Folly on the Road in Early Modern English Culture -- 8 ‘Fallen Am I in Dark Uneven Way’: Wandering from the Road in Early Modern Folklore and Drama -- 9 ‘I Must Abroad or Perish!’: The Meta-theatre of the Road in Brome’s A Jovial Crew -- III. Writing the Road -- 10 Staging the Road: Walking, Talking, Footing -- 11 The Road to Damascus and the Road to Hell in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado: Islamic England and the Pauline Crossroads -- 12 How Margaret Cavendish Mapped a Blazing World -- 13 ‘The King’s Highway’: Reading England’s Road in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I -- Conclusion -- Notes on Contributors -- Index