Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510-1613
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Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510-1613 by Harriet Phillips
Explores nostalgia for the medieval past in early modern popular entertainment, bringing together plays by Shakespeare, Heywood, Munday and Chettle, together with extensive research on contemporary ballads and other cheap print. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of early modern literature, history, drama and print culture.
'Harriet Phillips' study is an exceptionally fine workHer readings of individual literary texts, canonical and non-canonical alike, are consistently sharp, and are elegantly placed at the service of the wider argument. This book will be ranked among the most important recent studies of the place of the past in early modern England.' Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter
'… a richly rewarding and comprehensive study … Nostalgia in Print and Performance [, 1510–1613] represents groundbreaking new readings of work and periods too often treated separately by literary scholarship.' Andy Kesson, The Review of English Studies
'Phillips offers an important, in-depth, and dense reading contextualized culturally and etymologically.' J. S. Carducci, Choice
'In this smart, thoughtful, and important book … Harriet Phillips offers a welcome and rich expansion of early modern scholarship on nostalgia. As its subtitle suggests, this book challenges us to think critically about how early modern nostalgia could not only or exclusively commodify, but how it enabled collaboration and collective fantasy between writers and their readers and audiences.' Kristine Johanson, Modern Philology
'… a richly rewarding and comprehensive study … Nostalgia in Print and Performance [, 1510–1613] represents groundbreaking new readings of work and periods too often treated separately by literary scholarship.' Andy Kesson, The Review of English Studies
'Phillips offers an important, in-depth, and dense reading contextualized culturally and etymologically.' J. S. Carducci, Choice
'In this smart, thoughtful, and important book … Harriet Phillips offers a welcome and rich expansion of early modern scholarship on nostalgia. As its subtitle suggests, this book challenges us to think critically about how early modern nostalgia could not only or exclusively commodify, but how it enabled collaboration and collective fantasy between writers and their readers and audiences.' Kristine Johanson, Modern Philology
Phillips, Harriet: - Harriet Phillips is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on literature, popular culture and book history between 1500 and 1800. Her work has appeared in Shakespeare, Review of English Studies, Renaissance Studies, Parergon and Studies in Philology. She co-edited A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts (2018), and is co-editing Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (forthcoming).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108711807 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108711804 |
| Title | Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510-1613 |
| Author | Harriet Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2020-10-08 |
| Number of pages | 251 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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