Research Catalog

Title

Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton : trouble in the walled city / Adam N. McKeown.

Author

McKeown, Adam (Adam N.)

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2019.

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Details

Description

viii, 170 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic provided an outlet for a wide range of humanistic fascinations with urban design, composition, and community organization, but it also promoted centrality of control and subordinated the human environment to military functionality. Examining William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Winthrop, and John Milton, this volume shows how the literature of England and New England explores and challenges the new walled city as England struggled to define the sprawling metropolis of London, translate English urban spaces into Ireland and North America, and, later, survive a long civil war"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Cities and towns in literature
• Fortification in literature
• English literature > Early modern

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.

Contents

Introduction: a walled town and a village -- Walls of stone and walls of bone in Shakespeare's histories -- Spenser, the fortress city, and the plot for Ulster -- The walled city and the colonization of North America: La Rochelle, Boston, Quebec -- Paradise lost and the fortifications of civil war London -- Conclusion: the Connecticut experiment.

Call Number

JFE 19-4339

ISBN

• 9780815363699
• 0815363699
• 9781351108515 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351108508 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351108492 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351108485 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018031151

OCLC

1084746949

Author

McKeown, Adam (Adam N.), author.

Title

Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton : trouble in the walled city / Adam N. McKeown.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1700

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4339