Memories of War in Early Modern England

Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare de

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Paru le : 2016-09-23

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This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.
Pages
317 pages
Collection
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Parution
2016-09-23
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137588494
EAN PDF
9781137580122

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3
Nombre pages imprimables
31
Taille du fichier
3574 Ko
Prix
94,94 €
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9781137580122

Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
3
Nombre pages imprimables
31
Taille du fichier
1352 Ko
Prix
94,94 €