The Production of English Renaissance culture / David Lee Miller, Sharon O'Dair, and Harold Weber.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Miller, David Lee, 1951- author.

O'Dair, Sharon, author.

Weber, Harold, author.

Conference Name:

Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (17th : 1990 : University of Alabama)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Shakespeare, William.

Renaissance--England--Congresses.

Renaissance.

England--Civilization--16th century--Congresses.

England.

England--Civilization--17th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 20 halftones, 1 drawing, 2 tables

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is the relationship between the cultural artifacts of Renaissance England and the processes of production, exchange, and accumulation through which they were brought into being? Pursuing this question, a group of distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic exemplifies a number of different approaches to the writing of cultural history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Criticism and Cultural Production / Miller, David Lee / O'Dair, Sharon / Weber, Harold

1. Agans of the Manor: "Upon Appleton House" and Agrarian Capitalism / Kendrick, Christopher

2. State, Church, and the Disestablishment of Magic: Orthodoxy and Dissent in Post-Reformation England and France / Lachmann, Richard

3. Legal Proofs and Corrected Readings: Press-Agency and the New Bibliography / Loewenstein, Joseph F.

4. Bestial Buggery in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Boehrer, Bruce Thomas

5. News from the New World: Miscegenous Romance in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and The Widow Ranter / Ferguson, Margaret

6. Dead Man's Treasure: The Cult of Thomas More / Hulse, Clark

7. Treasures of Culture: Titus Andronicus and Death by Hanging / Barker, Francis

8. "The picture of Nobody": White Cannibalism in The Tempest / Halpern, Richard

9. Allegory, Materialism, Violence / Teskey, Gordon

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501744686

1501744682

OCLC:

1129186494