Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Andrea Brady, Emily Butterworth

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the...

Published April 23rd 2015 by Routledge

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Edited by Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose...

Published November 10th 2014 by Routledge

Reading the Early Modern Dream

The Terrors of the Night

Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

Published September 11th 2014 by Routledge

Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama

Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

By Ariane M. Balizet

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the...

Published April 25th 2014 by Routledge

Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture

Thresholds of History

Edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey, Theresa Krier

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the...

Published April 10th 2014 by Routledge

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Lethe's Legacy

Edited by Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory."...

Published April 10th 2014 by Routledge

Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

By John S. Garrison

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on...

Published December 27th 2013 by Routledge

Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

Performance, Geography, Privacy

Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through...

Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

By James Loxley, Mark Robson

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable...

Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge

Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Artificial Slaves

By Kevin LaGrandeur

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots...

Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge