{"product_id":"besieged-7","title":"Besieged","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, \u003ci\u003eBesieged \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts reflected an urgent interest in siege mentality and tactics.\u003cbr\u003e Exploring the siege as represented in canonical works by Milton, Dryden, Defoe, Davenant, Cowley, Cavendish, and Bunyan, alongside a wide array of little-known memoirs, plays, poems, and works of prose fiction on military and civilian experiences of siege warfare, \u003ci\u003eBesieged \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks new ground in the field of early modern war literature. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson draw on theories of space and place to show how early modern Britons feverishly worked to make sense of the immediacy, horror, and trauma of urban warfare, offering a valuable perspective on the literature that captured the cultural imagination during and after the traumatic civil wars of the 1640s.\u003cbr\u003e Alker and Nelson demonstrate how the narratives of besieged cities became a compelling way to engage with the fragility of urban space, unstable social structures, developing technologies, and the inadequacy of old heroic martial models. Given the reality of urban warfare in our own age, \u003ci\u003eBesieged \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a timely foundation for understanding the history of such spaces and their cultural representation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251812127064,"sku":"9780228005407","price":84.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228005407.jpg?v=1778728525","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/besieged-7","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}