Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, political factions and age, and the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre. Representative case studies are the arrival of children's literature as a genre, the creation of masculine citizenship in Defoe's novels, the performance of gendered and national identities by the actress Kitty Clive or in plays by Henry Fielding and Richard Sheridan, fashion and the public sphere, the emergence of the Whig and Tory parties, the radical culture of the 1790s, and visual representations of domestic and imperial landscape. Recognizing the proliferation of identities in the epoch, these essays explore the ways in which different media determined constructions of identity and were in turn shaped by them.

Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, political factions and age, and the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre. Representative case studies are the arrival of children's literature as a genre, the creation of masculine citizenship in Defoe's novels, the performance of gendered and national identities by the actress Kitty Clive or in plays by Henry Fielding and Richard Sheridan, fashion and the public sphere, the emergence of the Whig and Tory parties, the radical culture of the 1790s, and visual representations of domestic and imperial landscape. Recognizing the proliferation of identities in the epoch, these essays explore the ways in which different media determined constructions of identity and were in turn shaped by them.

This essay collection examines the Shakespearian culture of Cold War Europe - Germany, France, UK, USSR, Poland, Spain and Hungary - from 1947/8 to the end of the 1970s. Written by international Shakespearians who are also scholars of the Cold War, the essays assembled here consider representative events, productions and performances as cultural politics, international diplomacy and sites of memory, and show how they inform our understanding of the political, economic, even military, dynamics of the post-war global order. The volume explores the political and cultural function of Shakespearian celebration and commemoration, but it also acknowledges the conflicts they generated across the European Cold War 'theatre', examining the impact of Cold War politics on Shakespearian performance, criticism and scholarship. Drawing on archival material, and presenting its sources both in their original language and in translation, it offers historically and theoretically nuanced accounts of Shakespeare's international significance in the divided world of Cold War Europe, and its legacy today.

For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion. This 'religious turn' has generated new discussion of the social processes at work in early modern Europe and their cultural effects - from the struggle over religious rites and doctrines to the persecution of secret adherents to forbidden practices. The issue of religious pluralisation has been mostly debated in terms of dissent and escalation. But confessional controversy did not always erupt into hostilities over how to symbolize and perform the sacred nor lead to a paralysis of social agency. The order of the day may often have been to suspend confessional allegiances rather than enforce religious conflict, suggesting a pragmatic rather than polemic handling of religious plurality. This raises the urgent question of how 'normal' transconfessional and even transreligious interaction was produced in a context of highly sharpened and always present reflexivity on religious differences. Our volume takes up this question and explores it from an interdisciplinary and interconfessional perspective. The title "Forgetting Faith?" raises the question whether it was necessary or indeed possible to sidestep religious issues in specific contexts and for specific purposes. This does not mean, however, to describe early modern culture as a process of secularization. Rather, the collection invites discussion of the specific ways available to deal with confessional conflict in an oblivional mode, precisely because faith still mattered more than many other social paradigms emerging at that time, such as nationhood, ethnic origin or class defined through property.

Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the cognitive, material and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, memory studies, theatre history and performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/cognition, space/emotion, space/geopoetics, space/embodiment, space/language, space/virtual, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close-readings of one or several plays. The essays assembled here testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare’s creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.

This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions – two vibrant and growing areas of research – it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language.

1 Vorwort / Preface (Isabel Karremann) Weibliche Gelehrsamkeit 2 Bu rgerinnen in der Republik des Geistes? Gelehrte Frauen im England der Aufkla rung in: Querelles 1 (1996), S. 77-104. 3 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex': Nascent Ideas of Female Bonding in Seventeenth-Century England in: Women Writing Back/ Writing Women Back, Hg. Anke Gilleir, Alicia Montoya & Suzan van Dijk, Brill: Leiden-Boston 2010, S. 73-92. 4 Fadenwerk mit Lo chern: Weibliche Netze in der Fru hen Neuzeit in: Zeitschrift fu r Ideengeschichte VII/4 (Winter 2013), S. 41-52. 5 Die Frau als Intellektuelle im England des spa ten 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, in: Kritik in der Fru hen Neuzeit: Intellektuelle avant la lettre, hg. Rainer Bayreuther u. a., Wolfenbu tteler Forschungen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, S. 191-216. 6 Amazonen der Feder und verschleierte Ladies: Schreibende Frauen im England der Aufkla rung und der nachaufkla rerischen Zeit in: Autorschaft: Genus und Genie in der Zeit um 1800, Berlin 1994, S. 105-124. 7 Marie-Anne Du Boccage's La Colombiade (1756): A European poem in: Comparatio 10, 1 (2018) 1-18. Weibliches Begehren 8 Sexual emancipation in female literature of the enlightenment neuer Beitrag fu r diesen Band 9 Ersehnter Geliebter oder `erztugendhafte Marionette Geschlechterspezifische Reaktionen auf Sir Charles Grandison in: Empathie, Sympathie und Narration: Rezeptionslenkung in Prosa, Drama und Film. Hg. Caroline Lusin, Heidelberg: Universita tsverlag Winter, 2015, S. 225-239. 10 Die verfolgte Unschuld in: Mythen Europas: Schlu sselfiguren der Imagination. Vom Barock bis zur Aufkla rung. Hg. Andreas Hartmann & Fritz Neumann, Regensburg, Friedrich Pustet 2007, 166-187. - Nachdruck in: Menschen, die Geschichte schreiben, hg. A. Hartmann und F. Neumann, Wiesbaden: Marix 2014, S. 185-208. Weibliche Literaturgeschichte 11 Gender als Kategorie einer neuen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung in: Genus: Zur Geschlechterdifferenz in den Kulturwissenschaften, hg. Hadumod Bussmann und Renate Hof, Stuttgart: Kro ner Verlag 1995, S. 162-205. 12 Narrative and Gender in Literary Histories in: Comparative Critical Studies 6 (2009) 13 Des femmes en litte rature anglaise et litte rature franc aise (XVIIe-XIXe sie cle). Quelques perspectives sur une histore compare e in: Pour une histoire genre e des litte ratures romanes, Hg. Annette Keilhauer & Lieselotte Steinbru gge, E ditions Lendemains 32, Tu bingen: Narr 2013, S. 105-118. 14 From Feminist to Integrationist Literary History: 18th Century Studies 2005-2013 in: Literature Compass 11/10 (2014) S. 667-676. 15 U ber das Vergnu gen feministischer Literaturgeschichtsforschung in: Frauen in Kultur und Gesellschaft, hg. Renate von Bardeleben, Tu bingen: Stauffenburg 2000, 1- 17. &n

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided loyalties - between the old faith and the new, between religious and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we conceive of literary representations as possible sites of de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties? Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English culture and literature. -- .

This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.