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This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and
revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben
Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the
process. It includes original essays by both established and
emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and
queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian
playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to
encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from
the Renaissance.
This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and
revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben
Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the
process. It includes original essays by both established and
emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and
queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian
playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to
encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from
the Renaissance.
In this 2007 book, Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women
writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined,
visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how
women's writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain's
Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of
the changes that were refashioning that world, the book suggests
that memory is itself the textual site where the domestic echoes of
national crisis can most insistently be heard. Offering readings of
the work of poets who contributed to the oral traditions of Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, and analysing poetry, fiction and
life-writings by well-known and less familiar writers such as
Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson and Aphra Behn, this book explores
how women's writing of memory gave expression to the everyday,
intimate consequences of the major geopolitical changes that took
place in the British Atlantic world in the seventeenth century.
In a time exceptionally preoccupied with the relations between the
personal and the political, sexuality and power, Measure for
Measure is one of the most frequently staged and discussed of
Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on performance history and current
critical approaches, this study considers the play in relation to
its historical contexts and contemporary relevance. It traces the
dramatic unfolding of the plot through the social and theatrical
spaces of Shakespeare's Vienna: court, convent, prison, and public
street. It explores the intertwining of religion, sexuality,
politics and morality in the institutions associated with the
maintenance of social order in Vienna, and asks whether the world
of the play holds open any possibilities for challenging the power
of these institutions. The reader is led carefully through some of
Measure for Measure's most problematic moments, but the compelling
theatrical pleasures offered by this strange and fascinating play
are not overlooked.
In this 2007 book, Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women
writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined,
visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how
women's writing from all parts of the British Isles and Britain's
Atlantic colonies employed the resources of memory to make sense of
the changes that were refashioning that world, the book suggests
that memory is itself the textual site where the domestic echoes of
national crisis can most insistently be heard. Offering readings of
the work of poets who contributed to the oral traditions of Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, and analysing poetry, fiction and
life-writings by well-known and less familiar writers such as
Hester Pulter, Lucy Hutchinson and Aphra Behn, this book explores
how women's writing of memory gave expression to the everyday,
intimate consequences of the major geopolitical changes that took
place in the British Atlantic world in the seventeenth century.
This 2007 collection offered the first definitive study of a
surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely
the relationship between Shakespeare, children and childhood from
Shakespeare's time to the present. It offers a thorough mapping of
the domain in which Shakespearean childhoods need to be studied, in
order to show how studying Shakespearean childhoods makes
significant contributions both to Shakespearean scholarship, and to
the history of childhood and its representations. The book is
divided into two sections, each with a substantial introduction
outlining relevant critical debates and contextualizing the rich
combination of fresh research and readings of familiar
Shakespearean texts that characterize the individual essays. The
first part of the book examines the significance of the figure of
the child in the Shakespearean canon. The second part traces the
rich histories of negotiation, exchange and appropriation that have
characterised Shakespeare's subsequent relations to the cultures of
childhood in literary realms.
This 2007 collection offered the first definitive study of a
surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely
the relationship between Shakespeare, children and childhood from
Shakespeare's time to the present. It offers a thorough mapping of
the domain in which Shakespearean childhoods need to be studied, in
order to show how studying Shakespearean childhoods makes
significant contributions both to Shakespearean scholarship, and to
the history of childhood and its representations. The book is
divided into two sections, each with a substantial introduction
outlining relevant critical debates and contextualizing the rich
combination of fresh research and readings of familiar
Shakespearean texts that characterize the individual essays. The
first part of the book examines the significance of the figure of
the child in the Shakespearean canon. The second part traces the
rich histories of negotiation, exchange and appropriation that have
characterised Shakespeare's subsequent relations to the cultures of
childhood in literary realms.
Theories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the
rapidly expanding field of memory studies. It is a resource through
which students will be able both to broaden their knowledge of
contemporary theoretical perspectives and trace the development of
ideas about memory from the classical period to the present. The
Reader is organised into three parts: *Part I, Beginnings, is
historical in scope. Its three sections, Classical and Early Modern
Ideas of Memory; Enlightenment and Romantic Memory, and Memory and
Late Modernity lay out the key psychological, rhetorical, and
cultural concepts of memory in the work of a range of thinkers from
Plato to Walter Benjamin. *Part II, Positionings, identifies three
major perspectives through which memory has been defined and
debated more recently: Collective Memory; Jewish Memory Discourse;
and Trauma. *Part III, Identities, examines the key role of memory
in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings
Gender; Race/Nation; and Diaspora.The general introduction sets out
the significance of the field of memory studies while the
accessible introductions to the nine sections also include
suggestions for further reading in the area. Features *Offers a
comprehensive introduction to the rapidly expanding field of memory
studies *Both theorizes and historicizes the concept of memory for
students of literature and culture *Foregrounds the importance of
memory in contemporary theory *Provides a thorough survey of
theories of memory from the classical period to the present *Edited
by a team with a distinct range of expertise as well as experience
of teaching theories of memory to graduate students
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