Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Herausgeber: Berensmeyer, Ingo; Hadfield, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the historical, cultural and epistemological underpinnings of lying and deception in early modern England (1500-1750). The book draws on a wide range of English literature from Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order to explore the extent to which plays, poems and narrative texts were sites of negotiation and, at times, of ideological warfare between the moral imperative of truth-telling and the expediency of telling lies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781138391802
• ISBN-10: 1138391808
• Artikelnr.: 56894523

Autorenporträt

Ingo Berensmeyer is Professor of English and American Literature at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, and Visiting Professor of English Literature and Culture at Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests range from Shakespeare to contemporary literature. His most recent publications are 'Angles of Contingency': Literarische Kultur im England des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts (2007); study guides to Shakespeare's Hamlet (2007) and to Literary Theory (2009) and the co-edited book Perspectives on Mobility (with Christoph Ehland, 2013). Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada, Spain. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), and Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (1998). He is vice-chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies and is currently writing a book on lying in early modern England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture 1. Hiding
the Peacock's Legs: Rhetoric, Cosmetics and Deception in Shakespeare's
Lucrece and Trussell's Hellen 2. Mendacity and Kingship in Shakespeare's
Henry V and Richard III 3. 'An Anxious Entangling and Perplexing of
Consciences': John Donne and Catholic Recusant Mendacity 4. Truth and Lying
in Early Modern Travel Narratives: Coryat's Crudities, Lithgow's Totall
Discourse and Generic Change 5. 'Betrayed My Credulous Innocence':
Mendacity and Female Education in John Milton and the 'Battle of the Sexes'
6. Lying, Language and Intention: Reflections on Swift