Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: S. ScholzEAN: 9781349414185COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 454 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2000-05-05CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cultural studies
"This is a useful book in its ability to bring recent scholarship, theory, and familiar texts together...." - Elizabeth D. Harvey, Renaissance Quarterly
This is a smart book with much to offer... Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Susanne Scholz is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Paderborn University in Germany.
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: S. ScholzEAN: 9781349414185COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 454 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2000-05-05CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cultural studies
