Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England

Tropes provide access into habits of thought and worldviews-they express a climate of opinion and a hermeneutical context. Focusing on the textual activity of major cultural tropes, this study demonstrates the ways in which they enunciate and transform the cultural imagination on matters of love and power in the world, the body politic, and the rising sphere of personal life in early modern England. In twelve essays, prominent Renaissance scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704091
• ISBN13: 9780820704098
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 382 Pages