Memories of war in early modern England : armor and militant nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare /: armor and militant nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Harlan.
• Authors: Harlan, Susan E
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1: "Objects Fit for Tamburlaine": Self-Arming in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Robert Vaughan's Portraits, and The Almain Armourer's Album; Arms and the Man; The Emperor's New Clothes; Presenting Shields as Arming in Edward II; Oh, What a Lovely War: The Armored Subject as Aesthetic Object; A Farewell To Arms: Undressing at War's End; Notes; Interlude-Epic Pastness: War Stories, Nostalgic Objects, and Sexual and Textual Spoils in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage; Introduction; A Haunting War: Hospitality and War Stories Nostalgic Objects and Texts: Forgetting the Future and Citing the PastNotes; Chapter 2: Spoiling Sir Philip Sidney: Mourning and Military Violence in the Elegies, Lant's Roll, and Greville's Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney; Doing Obsequious Sorrow; Reading Armor and Wound: Sidney as Contested Object in the Elegies; Triumphant Scrolls: Thomas Lant's Sequitur celebritas & pompa funeris and the Process of Mourning; Absent Armor and the Absent Friend: Accessing the Biographical Subject in Greville's 1652 Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney; Notes Interlude-Scatter'd Men: Mutilated Male Bodies and Conflicting Narratives of Militant Nostalgia in Shakespeare's Henry VMaking English Limbs and Mettle; Conflicting Narratives of Militant Nostalgia; Notes; Chapter 3: The Armored Body as Trophy: The Problem of the Roman Subject in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus; Remembering Rome, Performing Rome; The Trophy: Destruction, Reconstitution, and Absence; Too Many Triumphs: Spoiling the Roman Subject in Julius Caesar; The Clothes Make the Man: Dressing the Roman Subject in Antony and Cleopatra From Casque to Cushion: Constructing the Roman Subject in CoriolanusNotes; Coda: "Let's Do't After the High Roman Fashion": Funeral and Triumph; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.93581; Literature; English literature -- History and criticism; War stories, English -- History and criticism; War and society -- England -- History; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; War and society; War stories, English; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Poetry; Literature, Modern; British literature; Literary Criticism -- Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets; England; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137580122; 1137580127
• Related ISBNs: 1137588497; 9781137588494
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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