Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: ...
 The word "rape" today denotes violent sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two senses, ... [... more]
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The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Not quite a forgotten classic, but deserves more attention Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to publish prolifically under her own name, but has been largely forgotten until very recently, with certain of her works coming back in to print for almost ... [... more]
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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
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Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
In contrast to previous studies that have portrayed Mary Sidney as a demure, retiring woman, this biography shows that she was actually an outspoken and dynamic figure. Basing her work on primary sources including account books, legal documents, diaries, ... [... more]
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This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (OPUS)
The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines ... [... more]
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Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation
Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for ... [... more]
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Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in ...
Alastair Fowler's fascinating study explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. He describes the forgotten Renaissance beliefs about stellification, an afterlife in the stars through metamorphosis into stellar ... [... more]
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Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry
"Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature."-Library Journal In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the ... [... more]
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Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language ...
Published to substantial critical acclaim, Elizabeth I: Collected Works brought together for the first time in one volume the speeches, poems, prayers, and selected letters of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), all in modernized spelling and punctuation. ... [... more]
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Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature
Thanks to cony-catching pamphlets and other rogue literature, the vagrant poor of Renaissance England have acquired a patina of comic good humor and a reputation as sturdy rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society. Unearthing the sources ... [... more]
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Censorship And Interpretation
The drive toward encryption. This is a critical treatment of the relationship between author and authority in the society of early modern England. Patterson explores the delicate balance between the state's need to control writers and their need to ... [... more]
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Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660
The years of the British Civil War and Interregnum constituted a turning point not only in the political, social, and religious history of seventeenth-century England but also in the use and meaning of English language and literature. Smith examines ... [... more]
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