16th and 17th Century Literature

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Crip Authority

Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities engaged with consolatory literature to relate to their lived experiences

The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Intellectual History, European History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Appropriation and Representation

Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story

By Shuhui Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

How a member of the late Ming literati class creatively manipulated popular and literati culture to elevate an underrated literary genre

Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By Gina Bloom
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

A Poetry Precise and Free

Selected Madrigals of Guarini

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Music

New translations and insightful commentary on art and courtly love in Renaissance Italy breathe fresh life into Guarini’s finest madrigals

The Media Players

Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News

By Stephen Wittek
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Media Studies, Theater and Performance

News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

The Immaterial Book

Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

By Sarah Wall-Randell
Subjects: History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine

The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

By Dalia Judovitz
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments

The Stage Life of Props

By Andrew Sofer
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture

Manning the Margins

Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France

By Lewis C. Seifert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France

Early Modern Autobiography

Theories, Genres, Practices

Edited by Lloyd Davis, Ronald Bedford, and Philippa Kelly
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Explores the diversity and creativity of early modern life-writing

The Afterlife of Pope Joan

Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England

By Craig Rustici
Subjects: Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought

Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton

By David L. Sedley
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 16th and 17th Century Literature, European Literature

Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem

Strong Voices, Weak History

Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy

Edited by Pamela Joseph Benson & Victoria Kirkham
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Shakespeare Behind Bars

One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison

By Jean Trounstine
Subjects: Education, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Theater and Performance

An inspirational story for all teachers

Albrecht Durer's Renaissance

Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith

By David Hotchkiss Price
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer

Managing Readers

Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books

By William W. E. Slights
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance

Class, Critics, and Shakespeare

Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars

By Sharon Kay O'Dair
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots

Everyday English 1500-1700

A Reader

Edited by Bridget Cusack
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

A rich compendium of historical texts that reflect the English spoken by ordinary citizens of the early modern period

Shakespeare in Theory

The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater

By Stephen Bretzius
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Witty and engaging essays on the links between contemporary literary theory and Shakespearean theater

Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England

Edited by James Fitzmaurice, Carol Barash, Eugene R. Cunnar, and Nancy A. Gutierrez
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Gender Studies

The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers

The Tremulous Private Body

Essays on Subjection

By Francis Barker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Essay and Interview
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body

The Place of the Stage

License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England

By Steven Mullaney
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Theater and Performance, History

Probes English society in the age of Shakespeare

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