Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways Contributor(s): Hopkins, Lisa (Editor), Angus, Bill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474454119 ISBN-13: 9781474454117 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
Dewey: 820.932 |
LCCN: 2020288154 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain
This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations. |