Early Modern Improvisations
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics.The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections across literary and historical texts, a sense of discovery that this collection’s contributors learned from its dedicatee, John Watkins, a major literary and cultural historian whose work moves effortlessly across geographical, temporal, and political borders. His work and his personality embody the spirit of creative improvisation that brings new ideas together, allowing texts and figures of history to haunt later eras and encourage new questions.This volume is aimed at scholars and students alike who wish to explore early modern culture and its reverberations in ways that engage with a world outside the grand narratives and centralized institutions of power, a world that is more provisional, less scripted, and more improvisational.
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics.
| ISBN: | 9781032698281 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Scheil, Katherine Shenk Linda |
| Verlag: | Taylor and Francis |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.06.2024 |
| Untertitel: | Essays on History and Literature in Honor of John Watkins |
| Schlagworte: | Classic and pre-20th century plays Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 HISTORY / Essays HISTORY / Europe / General HISTORY / General HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century History and Archaeology Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: general Medieval History Shakespeare Plays |
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