Mendacity in early modern literature and culture. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ingo Berensmeyer and Andrew Hadfield.
• Editors: Berensmeyer, Ingo; Hadfield, Andrew
• Contents: Introduction: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture Ingo Berensmeyer and Andrew Hadfield 1. Hiding the Peacock’s Legs: Rhetoric, Cosmetics and Deception in Shakespeare’s Lucrece and Trussell’s Hellen Anna Swärdh 2. Mendacity and Kingship in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Richard III Eric Pudney 3. ‘An Anxious Entangling and Perplexing of Consciences’: John Donne and Catholic Recusant Mendacity Shanyn Altman 4. Truth and Lying in Early Modern Travel Narratives: Coryat’s Crudities, Lithgow’s Totall Discourse and Generic Change Kirsten Sandrock 5. ‘Betrayed My Credulous Innocence’: Mendacity and Female Education in John Milton and the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Anne-Julia Zwierlein 6. Lying, Language and Intention: Reflections on Swift Brean Hammond and Gregory Currie
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (116 pages)
• Subjects: 820.93530903; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Deception in literature; Truth in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317229506; 1317229509
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.