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Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521786638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780393318661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-02-23
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780521455893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.
Author: Daniel Roche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-10-10
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780521574549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth century as all sections of the population became caught up in the world of fashion and fast-moving consumption.
Author: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-06-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0226439267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish translations of the author's most important articles.
Author: Karen Newman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-08-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0226577090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical lens of poststructuralism, Newman reads anatomies, conduct and domesticity handbooks, sermons, homilies, ballads, and court cases to delineate the ideologies of femininity they represented and produced. Arguing that drama, as spectacle, provides a peculiarly useful locus for analyzing the management of femininity, Newman considers the culture of early modern London to reveal how female subjectivity was fashioned and staged in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and others.
Author: Clare Gittings
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-10-13
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000995062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1984, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England traces how and why the modern reaction to death has come about by examining English attitudes to death since the Middle Ages. In earlier centuries death was very much in the midst of life since it was not, as now, associated mainly with old age. War, plague and infant mortality gave it a very different aspect to its present one. The author shows in detail how modern concern with the individual has gradually alienated death from our society; the greater the emphasis on personal uniqueness, the more intense the anguish when an individual dies. Changes in attitudes to death are traced through alterations in funeral rituals, covering all sections of society from paupers to princes. This gracefully written book is a unique, scholarly and thorough treatment of the subject, providing both a sensitive insight into the feelings of people in early modern England and an explanation of the modern anxiety about death. The range and assurance of this book will commend it to historians and the interested general reader alike.
Author: Steven Mullaney
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780472083466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProbes English society in the age of Shakespeare
Author: Carol Bresnahan Menning
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1501737201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on extensive archival evidence, Carol Bresnahan Menning examines the remarkable evolution of the Florentine monte from a small charitable pawnshop to a flourishing savings organization and a powerful instrument of patronage and state finance.
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780520061606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen Greenblatt has been at the center of a major shift in literary interpretation toward a critical method that situates cultural creation in history. Shakespearean Negotiations is a sustained and powerful exemplification of this innovative method, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement and, beyond this, an original analysis of cultural process.
