Re-imagining Western European geography in English Renaissance drama /

Re-imagining Western European geography in English Renaissance drama /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Matei-Chesnoiu, Monica, 1954-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	ix, 220 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Early modern literature in history Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subject:	English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Geography in literature. Renaissance -- England. English drama. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Geography in literature. Literature. Renaissance. Europe, Western -- In literature. England. Europe, Western. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8953441

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ISBN:	9780230366305 (hbk.) 0230366309 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Textual Note
Introduction: Dramatic Geographies of the Self
1. Geography as the Eye of History
Constructing fictions of geographic knowledge
Reconsidering classical geography
Seeing, imagining, and representing the world in English
Continental geography and travel in English translations
2. Romanticized France in the English Imagination
Stabilizing French images in English geography
Familiar and foreign France in English drama
3. Shifting Views of the German Principalities
German Lander in the English geographic imagination
Reading German ethnicity in English comedies
4. Geography and Trade: The Low Countries and Denmark
Mapping cultural memory via geography
From geography to commercial traffic in drama
5. Spain from Court to Country
Spain in early modern English geography
Reconstructing Spain in English plays
Notes
Bibliography
Index