Strangers in Early Modern English Texts
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- ISBN 9783631601402
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the textual and semiotic construction of early modern English identities. To this end, the contributors – scholars from various European universities – address a diversity of literary and non-literary, visual and written, texts from the 16th and 17th centuries, such as plays, pamphlets, travel narratives, dictionaries and emblematic literature, in order to determine how the textual and semiotic (re)production of strangers (be they Muslim, Black or Catholic) in these texts actively participates in the early modern shaping of English identities. In order to explore these processes the authors apply a diversity of critical tools, such as cultural materialist and cultural semiotic (Lotmanian) methodologies, among others.
Jesús López-Peláez is Associate Professor at the University of Jaén (Spain), where he currently teaches English medieval and early modern literature, and British drama. His latest book was Honourable Murderers (Peter Lang, 2009), a comparative analysis of the concept of honour in Shakespeare and Calderón de la Barca. The editor has published on early modern English and Comparative literature in several European and American academic journals, and is the Research Project Manager in the project Muslims, Spaniards and Jews in Early Modern English texts: The Construction of the Other, funded by the Spanish Government.
