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The Age of Subtlety
Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
University of Delaware Press
The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
Edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek
University of Delaware Press
Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Ordering Customs
Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice
University of Delaware Press
Ordering Customs is an intellectual and cultural history of the production and circulation of ethnographic knowledge in early modern Venice. It examines how a range of figures—diplomats, bureaucrats, printers, readers, and ordinary Venetians—produced, used, and circulated information about customs from the sixteenth through the early seventeenth centuries.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
Revisiting Late Medieval France
Edited by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier and Tracy Adams
University of Delaware Press
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
Revisiting Late Medieval France
Edited by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier and Tracy Adams
University of Delaware Press
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.
Gendering the Renaissance
Text and Context in Early Modern Italy
Edited by Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater
University of Delaware Press
The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
Negotiating Shifting Forms
Edited by Emily E. Thompson
University of Delaware Press
This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narratives categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as in historical, professional, and literary writing that addressed both erudite and common readers, the contributors evoke a society in transition.
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
Negotiating Shifting Forms
Edited by Emily E. Thompson
University of Delaware Press
This collection explores different modalities of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds of narratives categories. Through studies of storytelling in tapestries, stone, and music as well as in historical, professional, and literary writing that addressed both erudite and common readers, the contributors evoke a society in transition.
England's Asian Renaissance
Edited by Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli
University of Delaware Press
England's Asian Renaissance examines the often-subtle ways in which Asian cultures inflected the literature of early modern England, with an eye toward patterns of cross-cultural fertilization, mediation, and convergence. The collection moves away from hegemonic narratives of English cultural and political sovereignty to underscore the radically mobile nature of early modern culture.
Performative Polemic
Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France
University of Delaware Press
Performative Polemic offers a literary history of the French-language pamphlets that denounced absolutism during Louis XIV’s personal reign (1661-1715). The book employs performativity as a conceptual framework to trace the evolution of anti-absolutist pamphlets from legalistic texts indicting the French crown to satirical narratives that transformed the Sun King into a laughable object of derision.
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