Memories of War in Early Modern England

Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare

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Susan Harlan

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Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

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This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.

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Susan E. Harlan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Wake Forest University, USA.

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July 7th, 2018

Author

Susan Harlan

Series

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

Pages

317

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

9 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 317 p. 9 illus.

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9781349954674

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28341476

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