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  • Shakespeare and His Religious Afterlives

    Edited by Marta Cerezo ...
    Series Book 12 - Shakespeare &
    Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines how Shakespeare’s works have been translated, interpreted, and adapted across diverse cultural and religious contexts. It analyses unexplored nineteenth-century Swedish translations of Shakespeare’s works that reflect the interrelation between the sacred and the secular at work at the time in the Swedish education system. It also ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Universal Shakespeare Creed

    Readings in Shakespearean Religious, Spiritual, Ethical and Social Practice

    Series series New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
    The Universal Shakespeare Creed gathers together 11 essays by an international team of leading scholars addressing crucial aspects of Shakespeare’s transnational and transcultural religious afterlives.From the very beginnings of Shakespeare criticism, religion and spirituality are argued to have been vital in shaping attitudes towards Shakespeare’s works and in constructing the playwright as an ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    Fringe Discourses

    The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape that, though ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination

    The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint

    Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Looking Inward

    Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    "You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Emotion

    Edited by Katharine A. Craik ...
    Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical, historical, cultural and film studies brings the recent upsurge of interest in affect into conversation with some of the most urgent debates in Shakespeare studies. The volume provides ... Read more

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  • An Unexpected Journal: Shakespeare & Cultural Apologetics

    Volume 5, #4

    Series Book 4 - Volume 5
    Reading Shakespeare through a Christian LensNot only huge English literature fans or apologetics aficionados will be delighted by this special Advent issue of An Unexpected Journal. The aim is to interest the scholar, yes, but also the general reader who has no special knowledge of English literature, Shakespeare, or apologetics.The defense of the Christian faith believes that no domain of human ... Read more

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  • Disknowledge

    Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

    Series series Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library
    "Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory

    Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Renaissance of emotion

    Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

    Edited by Richard Meek, Erin Sullivan ...
    This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton

    Seventeenth-century England teemed with speculation on body and its relation to soul. Descartes' dualist certainty was countered by materialisms, whether mechanist or vitalist. The most important and distinctive literary reflection of this ferment is John Milton's vitalist or animist materialism, which underwrites the cosmic worlds of Paradise Lost. In a time of philosophical upheaval and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD