Imagining culture : essays in early modern history and literature /

Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title will be of interest to students o...

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Other Authors: Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015
Series:Garland reference library of the humanities Comparative literature and cultural studies ; v. 1.
Routledge revivals
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Table of Contents:
  • Imagining Culture: Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern Europe / Jonathan Hart
  • History and Anthropology, and the History of Anthropology: Considerations on Methodological Practice / Anthony Pagden
  • The Emergence of the Paradoxical Self / Eva Kushner
  • Sperone Speroni and the Labyrinthine Discourse of Renaissance Dialogue / Olga Zorzi Pugliese
  • Strategies of Promotion: Some Prefatory Matter of Oviedo, Thevet, and Hakluyt / Jonathan Hart
  • "My Honour I'll Bequeath unto the Knife": Public Heroism, Private Sacrifice, and Early Modern Rapes of Lucrece / Mercedes Maroto Camino
  • Pour une poetique de la nouvelle / Gisele Mathieu-Castellani
  • Speaking Politically Correct in the Feminine Voice: Examples from the Decameron and the Heptameron / Sylvie L.F. Richards
  • Cervantes et Tirso face aux performatifs: Don Quichotte et Don Juan / Antonio Gomez-Moriana
  • Concerning Ariosto's Modernity: Alcina's Case / Massimo Verdicchio