Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England

Folger bibliographic ID: 265520
Folger call number: PR428.H57 R47 2008
Folger holdings ID: 351217
Accession Number: 266985

"Twelve essays by Renaissance scholars extend the theoretical analysis and application of four tropes -- theater, moment, journey, and ambassadorship -- in examining works by Shakespeare, Donne, and others as a way of providing access into the thought and worldview of early modern England"--Provided by publisher

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-363) and index

Contents

1. Rex absconditus: justice, presence, and legitimacy in Measure for measure / Gale H. Carrithers Jr. and James D. Hardy Jr. -- 2. Salvific moments in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions / Eric C. Brown -- 3. Donne and the state of exception / Greg Kneidel -- 4. Troping religious identity: circumcision and transubstantiation in Donne's sermons / Jeanne Shami -- 5. Vaughan's Life of Paulinus: recharting the royalist journey / Susannah Monta -- 6. Journey and ambassadorship in the marriage literature for Mary Tudor (1496/1533) / A.E.B. Coldiron -- 7. Eucharistic semiotics and the representational formulas of Donne's Ambassadors / Alexandra Mills Block -- 8. Donne and diplomacy / Hugh Adlington -- 9. Dangerous liaisons: "Spider love" in Donne's "Twicknam Garden" / Albert C. Labriola -- 10. Mirror tropes and Renaissance poetry / Ilona Bell -- 11. The ars longa trope in a sublunary world / Kate Narveson -- 12. Habits of thought, structures of feeling / Stephen Pender

Extended title: Renaissance tropologies : the cultural imagination of early modern England / edited by Jeanne Shami

English literature Figures of speech in literature Rhetoric, Renaissance Language and culture Literature and history England

associated with: Shami, Jeanne