Creatively Expanding the Premodern

Historical and Literary Afterlives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60426-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture

This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings, and criticism such as poems, plays, and essays. In reviving these voices from the background, it widens the appeal and accessibility of scholarship in the humanities.

Creative composing processes draw research through the imagination and experience of the writer, an act which can help explore qualities of historical events and literary figures that are still relevant today. The four authors of this book demonstrate these approaches through creative adaptations and responses to Biblical and Classical writings, Greek mythological figures, medieval narratives, powerful historical women, plays by Shakespeare, and works by other early modern English writers. What distinguishes this book from other scholarship on the premodern is its collaborative and interdisciplinary foundation, as well as its emphasis on literary and hybrid genres.

Offering interdisciplinary ways of reading, thinking about, and reconceiving literature and scholarship in a way that invites dialogue and further creative responses, this volume provides humanities teachers with effective pedagogical tools to inspire deeper engagement and understanding in their students.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Carole

Stewart-Nunez, Christine

Tassi, Marguerite A.

Griffin, Julia

Stewart-Nuñez, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part 1: Classical and Biblical  1. Contemporary Visions of Classical Greek Women 2. Retellings of Greek Mythology 3. Biblical Retellings  Part 2: Powerful Medieval Women  4. Catherine of Siena 5. Magic and Medieval Women  Part 3: Sixteenth Century English Queens  6. Katherine of Aragon 7. Queen Elizabeth I ’s Courtships  Part 4: Shakespeare  8. Shakespearean Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry 9. Shakespearean Rags 10. Shakespearean Women  Part 5: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Writers  11. Spenser, Donne and Milton

Über Autor(innen)

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She is the author or editor of twenty books, most recently The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society (2022) and the play Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words. She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Warwick.

Marguerite A. Tassi is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama (2005) and Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics (2012), and the editor of Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare (2018).

Christine Stewart-Nuñez is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place (2022), The Poet & The Architect (2021), and four other books of poetry. She is also the co-editor of two books including Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens (2015). From 2019-2021, she served as South Dakota’s poet laureate.

Julia Griffin was until 2025 Professor in the English Department at Georgia Southern University, specializing in Renaissance English literature. In 2011, she published the first edition of the complete works of Anne Steele. She has also published poetry in a number of journals including Classical Outlook, Light, and The Ekphrastic Review.