Binding: Paperback
Description: Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny racism atheism and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicizing early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts Peter C. Herman explores how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. By examining the works of Thomas More William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe John Fletcher and Philip Massinger amongst others Herman reveals that for every - ism in early modern English culture there was an anti - ism pushing back against it. The book investigates others in early modern literature through indigenous communities women religion people of color and class. This innovative book shows that the early modern period was as complicated and as contradictory as the world today. It will offer valuable insight for anyone studying early modern literature and culture as well as social justice and intersectionality.
Title: Early Modern Others Resisting Bias In Renaissance Literature
Author(s): Herman Peter C.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032293660
Pages: 158 Pages, 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 6 Halftones, Black And White; 7 Illustrations, Black An
Publication Date: 10/25/2023
Category: Feminism & Feminist Theory