Games and War in Early Modern English Literature - From Shakespeare to Swift (Hardcover, 0)

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination. They consider how warfare and games are mapped onto each other in aesthetically and ideologically significant ways in the early modern plays, poetry or prose of William Shakespeare, Thomas Morton, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift, among others. Contributors interpret the terms 'war games' or 'games of war' broadly, freeing them to uncover the more complex and abstract interplay of war and games in the early modern mind, taking readers from the cockpits and clowns of Shakespearean drama, through the intriguing manuals of cryptographers and the ingenious literary wargames of Restoration women authors, to the witty but rancorous paper wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Cultures of Play
Release date:	August 2019
Editors:	Holly Faith Nelson • James William Daems
Contributors:	Sharon Alker • Karol Cooper • David Currell • Lori A. • Katherine Ellison • Louise Fang • Jeffrey Galbraith • Sean Lawrence
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 0mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	206
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463728010
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	9463728015
Barcode:	9789463728010

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