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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Leah Whittington (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Harvard University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.438kg ISBN: 9780198754442ISBN 10: 0198754442 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 09 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis deft book pursues several distinguishable agenda which might have gotten in one another's way but in Whittington's hands don't. * Gordon Braden, Translation and Literature * The book contributes generously to pre-existing scholarship regarding supplication, especially of Renaissance England ... The final product should interest scholars of not only literature but also philosophy, sociology, and political science. * Asa Olson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * This is an interesting, thoughtful, and wide-ranging study ... I beseech you to read it. * L. B. T. Houghton, Modern Language Review * Traversing the worlds of Homer, Vergil, Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Milton, among others, Renaissance Suppliants is a lucid, capacious study. Throughout, it remains deeply attentive to the particular historical exigencies that gave rise to the continual reinvention of supplicatory rituals within literature from antiquity to the Renaissance. * Christopher Crosbie, Modern Philology * A compelling picture of how to reread cultural and literary history. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 * This deft book pursues several distinguishable agenda which might have gotten in one another's way but in Whittington's hands don't. Gordon Braden, Translation and Literature This deft book pursues several distinguishable agenda which might have gotten in one another's way but in Whittington's hands don't. * Gordon Braden, Translation and Literature * Author InformationLeah Whittington is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. After receiving her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, she was a Mellon Fellow at the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Her research and teaching focus on English Renaissance literature and its classical and Continental antecedents. She is also Associate Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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