Description: Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : From Shakespeare to Swift, Hardcover by Nelson, Holly Faith (EDT); Daems, Jim (EDT), ISBN 9463728015, ISBN-13 9789463728010, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 1. An original account of the interplay between the concepts and language of gaming and warfare in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century cultural imagination. 2. A pioneering analysis of how the discourses of games and warfare inform each other in aesthetically and politically significant ways in literary works (drama, poetry, prose fiction and prose non-fiction) composed between the reigns of James VI/I and George I. 3. An exploration and interrogation of the accuracy and applicability of recent theories on the intersection of games and warfare, including those posed by Martin Van Creveld in Wargames: From Gladiators to Gigabytes(2013) and Philipp von Hilgers in War Games: A History of War on Paper (2008; English translation 2012). 4. A radical reimagining of the role of women writers in the history of war games. This pioneering collection of nine original 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.
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Book Title: Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : From Shakespea
Number of Pages: 206 Pages
Publication Name: Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : from Shakespeare to Swift
Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Social History, Modern / 17th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: David Currell
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Cultures of Play Ser.
Format: Hardcover
