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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198871554
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as significantly in the early modern English imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. The writings reveal painstaking attempts to understand the 'other' as well as ignorance and prejudice, surprising connections alongside phobic reactions to difference, the desire to co-operate alongside the desire to extinguish and exploit. The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on 'The North', detailing the important Arctic voyages and search for the elusive North-West Passage; 'Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean', includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; 'England from Elsewhere' includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and the epilogue on women travellers, explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall's journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Shirley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire.

Gentlemen and Amazons

Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948556
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen and Amazons written by Cynthia Eller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

Machiavelliana

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365516
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Machiavelliana written by Michael Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social psychology, and primatology, scholarly texts in leaderships studies, as well as novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, Mach IV scales, children’s books, and more. The book audits, surveys, examines, and evaluates this Machiavelliana against wider claims about Machiavelli. It explains the origins of Machiavelli’s reputation and the spread of his fame as the foundation for the many uses and misuses of his name. They conclude by redressing the most persistent distortions of Machiavelli.

Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters

Author : K. Attar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465727
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters by : K. Attar

Download or read book Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters written by K. Attar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Author : Liliana Sikorska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513362
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient written by Liliana Sikorska and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613

Author : Jonathan P.A. Sell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000152375
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 written by Jonathan P.A. Sell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were 'consensually' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as it was in a metaphorical epistemology out of kilter with an increasingly empiricist age. This book throws new light onto the episteme shift that ushered in modernity with its distrust of metaphor in particular and rhetoric's 'wordish descriptions' in general. In response to the empirical desiderata of scientific rationalism, traveller-writers textually or physically made their own bodies available as evidence of their encounters with wonder, thus transforming themselves into wonderful objects. The irony is that, far from dispensing with rhetoric, they merely put the accent on its more dramatic arts of gesture and action. The body's evidence could still be doctored, but its illusory truths were better able to satisfy the empirical demand for 'ocular proof'. The author's main purposes here are to complement, and sometimes counter, recent work on early modern travel literature by concentrating on its use of rhetoric to communicate meaning; and to suggest how familiarity with the workings of rhetoric and its communicative and epistemological premises may enhance readings of early modern English literature generally.

Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408138107
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics written by Andrew Hadfield and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy.

Travel Writing

Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136720804
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing written by Carl Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521767547
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists written by A. J. Hoenselaars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.

Othello (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393623394
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Othello (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Othello (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wanted an edition of Othello that had the necessary footnotes, background material, and a good selection of recent critical articles that would be accessible to students and would spark class discussions. This was it.” —Deborah Montuori, Shippensburg University This Norton Critical Edition includes: ·The First Folio text (1623). · An introduction, explanatory footnotes, note on the text, and textual notes by Edward Pechter. · Fifteen illustrations. · Giraldi Cinthio’s sixteenth-century story in its entirety, which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello. · A generous selection of interpretive responses to Othello from its origins to the present day, including—new to the Second Edition—those by Stanley Cavell and Lois Potter. Edward Pechter’s popular theatrical and critical overview of Othello has been significantly expanded. · An updated Selected Bibliography.

Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory

Author : Jyotsna G. Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408185261
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory by : Jyotsna G. Singh

Download or read book Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory written by Jyotsna G. Singh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers early modern discourses of colonialism, 'race', gender and globalization, through to contemporary intercultural appropriations and global adaptations of Shakespeare. Showing how the dialogue between Shakespeare criticism and postcolonial studies has evolved, this book offers a critical vocabulary that connects contemporary and early modern cultural struggles. Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory also provides guides to further reading and online resources which make this an essential resource for students and scholars of Shakespeare.

Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic

Author : K. Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137056134
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic written by K. Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This study focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions and their effects on post-Independence Caribbean literature.

Handbook of British Travel Writing

Author : Barbara Schaff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110497050
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of British Travel Writing by : Barbara Schaff

Download or read book Handbook of British Travel Writing written by Barbara Schaff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Lying in Early Modern English Culture

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192506595
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Lying in Early Modern English Culture written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying from the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. Unlike most histories of lying, it concentrates on a series of particular events reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying. The book covers a wide range of material such as the trials of Ann Boleyn and Thomas More, the divorce of Frances Howard, and the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; works of literature such as Othello, The Faerie Queene, A Mirror for Magistrates, and The Unfortunate Traveller; works of popular culture such as the herring pamphlet of 1597; and major writings by Castiglione, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale.

Shaping the Stuart World, 1603 - 1714

Author : Allan I. MacInnes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900414711X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Stuart World, 1603 - 1714 written by Allan I. MacInnes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shaping the Stuart World" examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and especially the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America.

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118823982
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by : Arthur F. Kinney

Download or read book A New Companion to Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama

Author : Matthieu Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317195515
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama written by Matthieu Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages the arguments for race as a fluid construction of human identity by addressing how race in Early Modern England functioned not only as a marker of human identity, but also as an a priori constituent of human subjectivity. Chapman argues that Blackness is the marker of social death that allows for constructions of human identity to become transmutable based on the impossibility of recognition and incorporation for Blackness into humanity. Using dramatic texts such as Othello, Titus Andronicus, and other Early Modern English plays both popular and lesser known, the book shifts the binary away from the currently accepted standard of white/non-white that defines "otherness" in the period and examines race in Early Modern England from the prospective of a non-black/black antagonism. The volume corrects the Afro-pessimist assumption that the Triangle Slave Trade caused a rupture between Blackness and humanity. By locating notions of Black inhumanity in England prior to chattel slavery, the book positions the Triangle Trade as a result of, rather than the cause of, Black inhumanity. It also challenges the common scholarly assumption that all varying types of human identity in Early Modern England were equally fluid by arguing that Blackness functioned as an immutable constant. Through the use of structural analysis, this volume works to simplify and demystify notions of race in Renaissance England by arguing that race is not only a marker of human identity, but a structural antagonism between those engaged in human civil society opposed to those who are socially dead. It will be an essential volume for those with interest in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Shakespeare, Contemporary Performance Theory, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies.