Renaissance configurations : voices/bodies/spaces, 1580-1690 / edited by Gordon McMullan.

Other author McMullan, Gordon, 1962-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Descriptionxxiii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Literature and society--England. --History. --17th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --16th century.
Gender identity in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Human body in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Renaissance--England.
Voice in literature.

Contents Preface : Renaissance configurations / Gordon McMullan -- 'Infinite riches in a little room' : Marlowe and the aesthetics of the closet / James Knowles -- Shakespeare 'creepes into the womens closets about bedtime': women reading in a room of their own / Sasha Roberts -- 'A book, and solitariness' : melancholia, gender and literary subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania / Helen Hackett -- Lyly and lesbianism : mysteries of the closet in Sappho and Phao / Michael Pincombe -- Blackness yields to beauty : desirability and difference in early modern culture / Kate Chedgzoy -- A rose for Emilia : collaborative relations in The two noble kinsman / Gordon McMullan -- Space for the self : place, persona and self-projection in The comedy of errors and Pericles / Amanda Piesse -- Calling 'things by their right names' : troping prostitution, politics and The Dutch courtesan / Mark Thornton Burnett -- Spectres and sisters : Mary Sidney and the 'perennial puzzle' of Renaissance women's writing / Suzanne Trill -- What echo says : Echo in seventeenth-century women's poetry : Wroth, Behn / Susan J. Wiseman -- Restoring the Renaissance : Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips / Ros Ballaster.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97049889
ISBN0312213484
ISBN0333676653

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR423 .R44 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold