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  • Reading Women

    Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

    Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively ... Read more

    $28.07 CAD

  • Reading Women

    Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

    Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively ... Read more

    $35.27 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.27 CAD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $20.87 CAD

  • The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality

    Edited by Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987,scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable.This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an ... Read more

    $85.00 CAD

  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

    $46.07 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

    Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The ... Read more

    Was $37.99 CAD Now $28.79 CAD

  • Master-Servant Childhood

    A History of the Idea of Childhood in Medieval English Culture

    by P. Ryan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order. ... Read more

    $58.04 CAD

  • Canon Vs. Culture

    Reflections on the Current Debate

    Edited by Jan Gorak ...
    Series series Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
    Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society. ... Read more

    $89.93 CAD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    by Kristen Poole ...
    Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

    Edited by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $28.79 CAD

  • The Birth-mark

    Essays

    by Susan Howe ...
    Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, ... Read more

    $17.81 CAD