David Wallace

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Premodern Places (eBook, PDF)

Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn

Beschreibung

This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. * * A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. * Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. * Begins with Calais - peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam - traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. * Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands). * Includes fascinating anecdotes, such as the story of an English merchant learning love songs in Calais. * Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race and slavery in Renaissance Europe. * Crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and Renaissance periods.

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Autor

David Wallace is Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has traveled extensively, exploring the importance of place both for print and documentary radio.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777138
• Artikelnr.: 38197505

Rezensionen

"David Wallace's knowledge of European medievalliterature is unequalled. His book is a cornucopia of illuminatingdetails, insights and connections that are simply not to be foundanywhere else." Terry Jones

"My Cinderella prize for the year's most underratedbook goes to David Wallace, whose Premodern Placesmixes romance and bizarrerie in a study of medieval and Renaissanceideas about geography and locality." JonathanKeates, The Spectator 'Book of the Year' feature,2004

"This is one of the sharpest and most imaginative books ofliterary criticism I've read in many years." PeterHulme, University of Essex

"Offering illuminating genealogies for a range of authorsand literary texts, Premodern Places radically questionsmany assumptions about historical as well as geographic boundaries.... this book asks both premodernists and postcolonialists torethink their disciplines and make urgent connections across spaceand time." Ania Loomba, University ofPennsylvania

"... a most brilliant representative of PostcolonialMedieval Studies." José Rabasa,University of California