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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Early Modern English Literature"”.
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… the faculty of the will was conceptualised in early modern English literature. The attempt to understand its function and purpose was a crucial concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of …
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Colour in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
In early modern England, colour was both a material and a textual preoccupation. However, the polychromatic palette that surrounded English men and women, and the particoloured palette of early modern writers, has thus far received little scholarly attention. This thesis rethinks the culture of …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical poetic and dramatic …
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'Serious Lots': Chance and Choice in Early Modern English Literature
… examines changing attitudes toward chance in early modern England by focusing upon the literary representation of ‘serious lots’: lotteries applied to a ‘serious purpose’. Used to allocate inheritances, elect civil officials, divvy up colonial lands, distribute punishments and dispense …
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Making Space: Gardens and Social Identity in Early Modern English Literature
… landscape the male colonizers sought to make ""English."" By the beginning of the seventeenth century, aesthetic gardening permitted women creative agency in separate garden-spaces isolated as their own in the prescriptive manuals. Hence, Aemilia Lanyer's representations of gardens in Salve Deus …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… representations of decaying organic matter in early modern English literature. The ubiquitous preoccupation with processes of organic dissolution and decay in the poetry, prose, and drama of the years 1580-1660 has often been understood to reflect this period’s pervasive anxieties about …
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… the conception of the female life cycle in early modern English literature, especially the social roles of maid, wife, and widow. Reading texts from a variety of genres and by both male and female authors, this dissertation argues that a typological understanding of marriage gave additional, …
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Impossible Heroes: Heroism and Political Experience in Early Modern England
… the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the English commonwealth was caught between competing concepts of the political. England's political culture had traditionally combined monarchy with local autonomy, office-holding, and a republican ethos that understood politics in terms of dynamic …
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Grafting Onto `the Jew': The Importance Of Being Jew-Ish To Early Modern English Christian Identity
… dissertation examines how Jewish figures in early modern plays, prose, and poetry moved beyond the uncomplicated medieval image of murderous villain and towards a more reasoned consideration of the Jew's position in Christianity as well as in English life. While there has been significant …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… schoolroom, through the first recorded uses in English of the Latin legal term plagiary (kidnapper) as a metaphor for literary misappropriation, to an inchoate conception of literary property among a coterie of writers in early modern England. It argues that the recognition of literary …