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  • - Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal
    av Bruce Thomas Boehrer
    693,-

    In The Fury of Men''s Gullets, Bruce Boehrer explores the poet''s fascination with alimentary matters and the ways in which such references describe Jonson''s personal and cultural transformation. In his wide-ranging examination of Jonson''s plays, prose, and nondramatic verse, Boehrer discusses the sociohistorical significance of food, the politics of conspicuous consumption, the infrastructure of Jacobean London, and pertinent aspects of Renaissance medical practice and physiological theory. The Fury of Men''s Gullets uniquely interprets Jonson''s construction of early modern English literary sensibility.

  • - Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship
    av Bruce Thomas Boehrer
    741,-

    In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III''s divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court.

  • - Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
    av Bruce Thomas Boehrer
    328,-

    Exploring the presence and meanings of these birds in the art, literature, and history of Western civilization, Parrot Culture traces the unusual history of parrots from their introduction in the Graeco-Roman world, through the great age of New World exploration, to the contemporary ecological crisis of globalism.

  • - Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature
    av Bruce Thomas Boehrer
    657,-

    Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep all undergo a dramatic change in character as European writers begin to develop a new interest in-and understanding of-human character in its relation to literature.

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