A knight's legacy : Mandeville and Mandevillian lore in Early Modern England /: Mandeville and Mandevillian lore in Early Modern England. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ladan Niayesh.
• Editors: Niayesh, Ladan
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Foreword / Mary Baine Campbell -- Part I: Editions and Receptions -- 1. Mandeville in England: the early years / Michael S. Seymour -- 2. 'Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile': reading the Travels in early modern England / Charles W. R. D. Moseley -- 3. Mandeville reviviscent: early modern travel tales Kenneth Parker -- Part II: Mandevillian Ideologies -- 4. The four rivers of paradise: Mandeville and the Book of Genesis / Leo Carruthers -- 5. Mandeville on Muhammad: texts, contexts and influence / Matthew Dimmock -- 6. A 'science of dreams': 'the fantastic ethnography' of Sir Walter Ralegh and Baconian experimentalism / Line Cottegnies -- Part III: Mandevillian stages -- 7. Marlowe's Tamburlaine: the well-travelled tyrant and some of his unchecked baggage / Richard Hillman -- 8. Prester John writes back: the legend and its early modern reworkings / Ladan Niayesh -- 9. Stage-Mandevilles: the far east and the limits of representation in the theatre, 1621/2002 / Gordon Mcmullan -- 10. The politics of Mandevillian monsters in Richard Brome's The Antipodes / Claire Jowitt -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 910.4092; Chivalry in literature; Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval; Chivalry in literature; Travel; Great Britain -- History; Great Britain; History; Travel
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526148230; 1526148234
• Related ISBNs: 9780719081750
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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