Renaissance configurations : voices/bodies/spaces, 1580-1690

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Renaissance configurations : voices/bodies/spaces, 1580-1690

edited by Gordon McMullan

Palgrave, 2001

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Includes index p.257-263

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Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists. The essays focus on the relations of public and private, of verbal and spatial, of textual and material, reading and re-reading texts, both canonical and non-canonical, with a textual and historical rigour often considered lacking in work with theoretical premises. The collection as a whole offers a clear sense of the direction to be taken by Early Modern studies over the next decade.

Table of Contents

  • Preface: Renaissance Configurations
  • G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet
  • J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's Closets about Bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own
  • S. Roberts 'A Book, and Solitariness': Melancholia Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania
  • H. Hackett PART II: DESIRING DIFFERENCE Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao
  • M. Pincombe 'With Phoebus' Amorous Pinches Black': the Desirability of Difference in Early Modern Culture
  • K Chedgzoy A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen
  • G. Kinsmen PART III: NAMING/LOCATING Space for the Self: Place, Persona, and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles
  • A. Piesse Calling Things By Their Names': Troping Prostitution, Politics, and The Dutch Courtesan
  • M. Thornton Burnett PART IV: VOICING THE PAST Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the `Perennial Puzzle' of Renaissance Women's Writing
  • S. Trill What Echo Says in Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry: Wroth, Behn
  • S.J. Wiseman Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips
  • R. Ballaster Afterword
  • A. Thompson

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