| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) |
| Series |
Early modern literature in history |
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Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self -- Geography as the Eye of History -- Romanticized France in the English Imagination -- Shifting Views of the German Principalities -- Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark -- Spain from Court to Country -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Geography as the eye of history -- Constructing fictions of geographical knowledge -- Reconsidering classical geography -- Seeing, imagining, and representing the world in English -- Continental geography and travel in english translations -- Romanticized France in the English imagination -- Stabilizing French images in english geography -- Familiar and foreign France in English drama -- Shifting views of the German principalities -- German land in the english geographic imagination -- Reading German ethnicity in English comedies -- Geography and trade: the low countries and Denmark -- Mapping cultural memory via geography -- From geography to commercial traffic in drama -- Spain from court to country -- Spain in early modern English geography -- Reconstructing Spain in English drama |
| Summary |
Focusing on how citizens of early modern England tried to locate themselves and their nation through geography and travel writing, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu explores theatrical representations of Western European space and ethnography. Geographic discourses share many features with drama in that they appeal to the readers' and audience's curiosity and imagination. Playwrights use information derived from geography treatises as vehicles to allegorize contemporary English issues in a dialogical mode. While geography and travel texts provide an objective synthesis in describing Western European nations, dramatic interaction destabilizes any preconceived notions and submits contrastive views on imagined global European communities. This book explores representations of France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and Denmark in a wide range of geography texts and offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Renaissance -- England
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Geography in literature
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Literature
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Renaissance
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Western -- In literature
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| Subject |
England
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Western Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137029331 |
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1137029331 |
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