Renaissance Discovery of Violence, From Boccaccio to Shakespeare

This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.

List of contents

A Note on the Texts; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Overture: The Show of Violence; Chapter Two The Moral Economy of Violence in the Renaissance Novella Collection: Straparola, Bandello and Marguerite de Navarre; Chapter Three Pacifism, Erasmus and More; Chapter Four Violence as Labor: The Heroic Narrative; Chapter Five "Tragedy Shows Us What We Must Flee From"; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP, 2002), Dishing It Out (Reaktion, 2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Zero, 2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: the Mythography of Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (Oxford UP, 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Robert Appelbaum
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781839981470
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-147-0
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Anthem Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies