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  • Thomas More

    Humanism and Heresy

    by Andrew Hadfield, Joanne Paul ...
    Series Book 90 - Renaissance Lives
    Thomas More: Humanism and Heresy offers a clear and engaging introduction to one of the most influential and contested figures of the English Renaissance. Situating More’s major works within the humanist movement and the debates surrounding the Lutheran ‘heresy’ and the Tudor court, Andrew Hadfield and Joanne Paul reveal how his ideas grew from – yet often strained against – the intellectual ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire

    A Traveller's Guide

    by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield ...
    Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire is a compact and informative guide to the ways in which the world was understood and imagined by British travellers and readers in the Tudor and Jacobean period, just before the rapid expansion of the transoceanic British Empire from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. The book shows how the relatively restricted English-speaking world ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex

    Culture and Conflict

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lying in Early Modern English Culture

    From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

    Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

    Edited by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield ...
    A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Literature and class

    From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a modern phenomenon that occurred after the Industrial revolution ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Were Early Modern Lives Different?

    Writing the Self in the Renaissance

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need to be thought of as alien beings with whom we have little in common? This specially commissioned collection explores this important issue through an analysis of the lives and work of a number of significant early modern writers. Shakespeare is analysed in a number of essays as authors ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Mirror for Magistrates in Context

    Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England

    Edited by Harriet Archer, Andrew Hadfield ...
    This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson

    Laureations

    by Leonard Barkan, Frances Dolan, Heather Dubrow, Edwin M. Duval, Margaret Ferguson, Barbara Fuchs, Patricia Fumerton, Andrew Hadfield, Patricia Clare Ingham, Andrew McRae, Shannon Miller, James Nohrnberg, Michael O'Connell ...
    This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary careerism, and studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also medieval literary texts, ... Read more

    $103.69 USD

  • Edmund Spenser

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work, from early literary experiments such as The Shepeardes Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work,The Fairie Queene. The introduction provides an overview of critical responses to Spenser, setting his work and the debates which it has ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Edmund Spenser

    A Life

    by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'-- a man on the make who aspired to be at court and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted. In his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD