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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

By: Dr Jennifer C Vaught

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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

By: Dr Jennifer C Vaught

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used–and misused–by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409456528

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9781409456520

Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur

By: Dr. Molly Martin,Molly Anne Martin

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Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur

By: Dr. Molly Martin,Molly Anne Martin

Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843842424

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9781843842422

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Dr Jennifer C Vaught

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Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Dr Jennifer C Vaught

Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health — physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.

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1409476235

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Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur

Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

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