Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690

by Gordon McMullan (Editor)

A collection of 11 scholarly essays on cultural formations in early modern English literature written by English department teachers and lecturers in Britain and Ireland. The focus is on questions of gender, sexuality and politics in the relations of public/private, verbal/spatial and material/textual. A sampling of melancholia, gender, and literary subjectivity in Mary Worth's Urania; persona and self-projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles; Mary Sidney and the "perennial puzzle" of Renaissance women's writing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

263 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998