This Body of Death explores how the lyric poetry and other non-narrative literary forms of early modern England shape our understanding of what it means to be mortal. Previous studies of the nature of death in this period have looked almost exclusively at narrative source material: plays, theological accounts, historical reports. Those narrative ......
This Body of Death explores how the lyric poetry and other non-narrative literary forms of early modern England shape our understanding of what it means to be mortal. Previous studies of the nature of death in this period have looked almost exclusively at narrative source material: plays, theological accounts, historical reports. Those narrative ......
Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism. Through his excavation of a pair of Latin comedies-Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite, written and performed by law students at the University of Pavia in 1427 ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption. Consumption ......
Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption. Consumption ......
An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-color digital copies of thousands of medieval manuscripts to anyone with an ......
Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature. Taking up four paradigms of literary scholarship-authorship, composition, form, and reuse-Georgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the ......
