Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England / edited by Jeanne Shami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shami, Jeanne.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance literary studies

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Figures of speech in literature.

Rhetoric, Renaissance--England.

Rhetoric, Renaissance.

Language and culture--England--History--16th century.

Language and culture.

Language and culture--England--History--17th century.

Literature and history--England--History--16th century.

Literature and history.

History.

England.

Literature and history--England--History--17th century.

England--Civilization--16th century.

Civilization.

England--Civilization--17th century.

Physical Description:

x, 382 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2008]

Summary:

"Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr.

2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown

3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel

4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami

5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta

6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496-1533) / A.E.B. Coldiron

7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block

8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington

9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola

10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell

11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson

12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-363) and index.

ISBN:

0820704091

9780820704098

OCLC:

228376518