Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Cul

📁 Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

✍ Jane Kingsley-Smith 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of ido

Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Cul

📁 Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

✍ Jane Kingsley-Smith 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of ido

Cupid in early modern literature and cul

📁 Cupid in early modern literature and culture

✍ Jane Kingsley-Smith 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

"Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of id

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture (Earl

📁 Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture (Early Modern Literature in History)

✍ Robyn Adams, Rosanna Cox 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern En

📁 Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

✍ Louise Noble 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture examines an important moment in the long history of the medical use and abuse of the human body. In early modern Protestant England, the fragmented corpse was processed, circulated, and ingested as a valuable drug in a medical econ

Women's Work in Early Modern English Lit

📁 Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

✍ Michelle Dowd 📂 Library 📅 2009 🌐 English

WINNER OF THE 2009 NWSA SARA A. WHALEY BOOK AWARD!! This enlightening book investigates literature’s engagement with the social and gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists and women writers created to describe the lives of working wo