Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : From Shakespeare to Swift.
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Author / Creator: | Nelson, Holly Faith. |
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Imprint: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019. |
Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cultures of Play Ser. Cultures of Play Ser. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399864 |
Other authors / contributors: | Daems, James William. |
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ISBN: | 9048544831 9789048544837 |
Notes: | Print version record. |
Summary: | This collection of nine essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination. They consider how warfare and games are mapped onto each other in aesthetically and ideologically significant ways in the early modern plays, poetry or prose of William Shakespeare, Thomas Morton, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift, among others. Contributors interpret the terms 'war games' or 'games of war' broadly, freeing them to uncover the more complex and abstract interplay of war and games in the early modern mind, taking readers from the cockpits and clowns of Shakespearean drama, through the intriguing manuals of cryptographers and the ingenious literary wargames of Restoration women authors, to the witty but rancorous paper wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. |
Other form: | Print version: Nelson, Holly Faith. Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : From Shakespeare to Swift. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019 |
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