The Production of English Renaissance Culture

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David Lee Miller, Sharon O'Dair, Harold Weber
Cornell University Press, 2019 M05 15 - 320 pages

What is the relationship between the cultural artifacts of Renaissance England and the processes of production, exchange, and accumulation through which they were brought into being? Pursuing this question, a group of distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic exemplifies a number of different approaches to the writing of cultural history.

 

Contents

Criticism and Cultural Production
1
Upon Appleton House and Agrarian Capitalism
13
Orthodoxy and Dissent in PostReformation England and France
56
PressAgency and the New Bibliography
93
4 Bestial Buggery in A Midsummer Nights Dream
123
Miscegenous Romance in Aphra Behns Oroonoko and The Widow Ranter
151
The Cult of Thomas More
190
Titus Andronicus and Death by Hanging
226
White Cannibalism in The Tempest
262
9 Allegory Materialism Violence
293
Notes on Contributors
319
Index
321
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David Lee Miller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 'Faerie Queene'. Sharon O'Dair and Harold Weber are Associate Professors of English at the University of Alabama.

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