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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Juli 2018
Genre:	Sprache
	B / British and Irish Literature / British literature / Cultural Studies / Cultural Theory / Culture—Study and teaching / Early Modern and Renaissance Literature / Early Modern/Renaissance Literature / Literary History / Literary studies# general / Literary theory / Literature / Literature# history & criticism / Literature, Cultural and Media Studies / Literature, Modern / Literature—History and criticism / Literature—Philosophy / Poetry / Poetry and Poetics
ISBN:	9781349954674
EAN-Code:	9781349954674
Verlag:	Springer Nature EN
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D
Gewicht:	435 gr
Seiten:	317
Illustration:	XI, 317 p. 9 illus., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Zus. Info:	Previously published in hardcover
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This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of "spoiling" - or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle - provides a way of thinking about England's relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.