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Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama
Jean-Christophe . Ed(S): Mayer
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Editor(s): Mayer, Jean-Christophe. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
This wide-ranging collection of essays, written by leading specialists, furnishes previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. Its chapter-length introduction offers an up-to-date critical presentation of the issues involved: representation, cultural identity, the construction of otherness, Frenchness, and the social and cultural dynamics of theater. The essays in the five sections of the book continue the debate with a series of in-depth studies touching on important critical themes such as intertextuality; old and new historicisms; language, semiotics, and nationhood; imagined geographies; and stereotypes and social satire. The book will appeal ... Read more
This wide-ranging collection of essays, written by leading specialists, furnishes previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. Its chapter-length introduction offers an up-to-date critical presentation of the issues involved: representation, cultural identity, the construction of otherness, Frenchness, and the social and cultural dynamics of theater. The essays in the five sections of the book continue the debate with a series of in-depth studies touching on important critical themes such as intertextuality; old and new historicisms; language, semiotics, and nationhood; imagined geographies; and stereotypes and social satire. The book will appeal ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490725
SKU
V9781611490725
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99-15
About Jean-Christophe . Ed(S): Mayer
Jean-Christophe Mayer is a senior research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
Reviews for Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama
Representing France and the French presents a provocative and panoramic introduction to the many ways the French figure in early modern drama…. The collection as a whole makes a valuable contribution to an area of scholarship that has been neglected. The very range of topics here and the many uses to which ideas about France and French are put ... Read more