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  1. Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton
    trouble in the walled city
    Author: McKeown, Adam
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new... more

     

    Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic provided an outlet for a wide range of humanistic fascinations with urban design, composition, and community organization, but it also promoted centrality of control and subordinated the human environment to military functionality. Examining William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Winthrop, and John Milton, this volume shows how the literature of England and New England explores and challenges the new walled city as England struggled to define the sprawling metropolis of London, translate English urban spaces into Ireland and North America, and, later, survive a long civil war

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781351108492; 1351108492; 9781351108515; 1351108514; 9781351108508; 1351108506; 9781351108485; 1351108484
    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
    Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
    Subjects: English literature / 16th century / History and criticism; European literature / Renaissance, 1450-1600 / History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource
  2. Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton
    trouble in the walled city
    Author: McKeown, Adam
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new... more

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    Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic provided an outlet for a wide range of humanistic fascinations with urban design, composition, and community organization, but it also promoted centrality of control and subordinated the human environment to military functionality. Examining William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Winthrop, and John Milton, this volume shows how the literature of England and New England explores and challenges the new walled city as England struggled to define the sprawling metropolis of London, translate English urban spaces into Ireland and North America, and, later, survive a long civil war

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781351108492; 1351108492; 9781351108515; 1351108514; 9781351108508; 1351108506; 9781351108485; 1351108484
    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
    Subjects: English literature; European literature; Cities and towns in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  3. Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton
    trouble in the walled city
    Author: McKeown, Adam
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: A Walled Town and a Village; 1 Walls of Stone and Walls of Bone in Shakespeare's Histories; 2 Spenser, the Fortress City, and the Plot for Ulster; 3... more

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    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: A Walled Town and a Village; 1 Walls of Stone and Walls of Bone in Shakespeare's Histories; 2 Spenser, the Fortress City, and the Plot for Ulster; 3 The Walled City and the Colonization of North America: La Rochelle, Boston, Quebec; 4 Paradise Lost and the Fortifications of Civil War London; 5 Conclusion: The Connecticut Experiment; Works Cited; Index

     
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  4. Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton
    trouble in the walled city
    Author: McKeown, Adam
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: A Walled Town and a Village; 1 Walls of Stone and Walls of Bone in Shakespeare's Histories; 2 Spenser, the Fortress City, and the Plot for Ulster; 3... more

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    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: A Walled Town and a Village; 1 Walls of Stone and Walls of Bone in Shakespeare's Histories; 2 Spenser, the Fortress City, and the Plot for Ulster; 3 The Walled City and the Colonization of North America: La Rochelle, Boston, Quebec; 4 Paradise Lost and the Fortifications of Civil War London; 5 Conclusion: The Connecticut Experiment; Works Cited; Index

     
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