Tous les ebooks de la collection Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

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Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)

Christina Kullberg

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical...



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British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century

Eva Johanna Holmberg

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of howBritish travellers understood the non-Muslim peoples...



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Publicity and the Early Modern Stage

Allison K. Deutermann , Musa Gurnis , Matthew Hunter

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century?What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in...



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Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature

Lynn M. Maxwell

This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist’s studio and in literary and...



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Queer Milton

David L. Orvis

Queer Milton is the first book-length study dedicated to anti-heteronormative approaches to the poetry and prose of John Milton. Organized into sections on “Eroticism and Form” and “Temporality and Affect,” essays in this volume read Milton’s works through radical queer...



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Stupid Humanism

Christine Hoffmann

This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia—abundance...



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Memories of War in Early Modern England

Susan Harlan

This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the...



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