Book Series in Literature
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Staging Early Modern Romance
Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare
This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96281-0 (Routledge)
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson
Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47743-7 (Routledge)
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Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England
This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96115-8 (Routledge)
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Reading the Early Modern Dream
The Terrors of the Night
Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38601-2 (Routledge)
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95721-2 (Routledge)
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Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations… read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32473-1 (Routledge)
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Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America
Circles in the Sand
The early modern map has come to mark the threshold of modernity, cutting through the layered customs of Medieval parochialism with its clean, expansive geometries.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32341-3 (Routledge)
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Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture
Thresholds of History
The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32340-6 (Routledge)
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Lethe's Legacy
This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31046-8 (Routledge)
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Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre
Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28668-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative
By James Loxley, Mark Robson
To be published December 31st 2009
Renaissance Futures
Edited by ANDREA BRADY, Emily Butterworth
To be published October 1st 2009