Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Proceedings of the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002

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Yvonne Bruce
University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 283 páginas
Itineraries, perambulations, and surveys : the intersections of chorography and cartography in the sixteenth century / John M. Adrian -- To serve my purpose : interpretive agency in George Wither's A collection of emblemes / Rob Browning -- The three noble kinsmen : Chaucer, Shakespeare, Fletcher / Kathryn L. Lynch -- Ovid and the question of politics in early modern England / Heather James -- Parodies lost : Aretino reads Raimondi /Helen M. Whall -- Accepting the flesh : George Herbert and the sacrament of Holy Communion / Jeannie Sargent Judge -- Twixt treason and convenience : some images of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford / Julia B. Griffin -- Backbiters, flatterers, and monarchs : domestic politics in The tragedy of Mariam / Heather E. Ostman -- Gender and the market in Henry VI, I / Jennifer A. Rich -- Hrethel's heirloom : kinship, succession, and weaponry in Beowulf / Erin Mullally -- Shylock : Shakespeare's bad Jew / Jay L. Halio -- Coping with providentialism : trauma, identity, and the failure of the English Reformation / Scott Lucas.

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The Intersections of Chorography and Cartography in the Sixteenth Century
29
Interpretive Agency in George Withers A Collection of Emblemes
47
Chaucer Shakespeare Fletcher
72
Ovid and the Question of Politics in Early Modern England
92
Aretino Reads Raimondi
125
George Herbert and the Sacrament of Holy Communion
136
Some Images of Thomas Wentworth First Earl of Stratfford
153
Domestic Politics in The Tragedy of Mariam
183
Gender and the Market in Henry VI I
206
Kinship Succession and Weaponry in Beowulf
228
Shakespeares Bad Jew
245
Trauma Identity and the Failure of the English Reformation
255
Contributors
274
Index
277
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