Neo-Historicism - Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics

Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.

List of contents

The 'Historical Turn' and the Political Culture of Early-Modern England: Towards a Postmodern History? - Glenn Burgess
'New' Guides to the Historically Perplexed - Stanley Stewart
Ben Jonson and the Monarchy - Blair Worden
Fear of Playing - Andrew Gurr
Inwardness and Spectatorship in Early Modern England - Katharine Eisaman Maus
Jacobean Pageant or Elizabethan Fin-de-Siècle? The Political Context of Early Seventeenth-Century Tragedy - Rowland Wymer
The Ancient British Presence in Renaissance Literature - Graham Parry
Occasional Events versus Literary Texts: the Historical Investigation of Political Imagery - R Malcolm Smuts
The Politics of Affectivity in Early Modern England - Steven Zwicker
'In thievish ways': Tropes and Robbers in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Culture - Heather Dubrow
An Orpheus for a Hercules: Redefining Virtue in The Tempest - Robin Headlam Wells

About the author

Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer

Product details

• Authors: Robin Headlam Wells
• Assisted by: Glenn Burgess (Editor), Robin Headlam Wells (Editor), Rowland Wymer (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780859915816
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-581-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Amerika, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General