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A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works. Divided into three sections, 'Marlowe's works', 'Marlowe's world', and 'Marlowe's reception', the book ranges from Marlowe's relationship with his own audience through to adaptations of his plays for modern cinema. Other contexts for Marlowe include history and politics, religion and science. Discussions of Marlowe's critics and Marlowe's appeal today, in performance, literature and biography, show how and why his works continue to resonate; and a comprehensive further reading list provides helpful suggestions for those who want to find out more.

Liberty in literature. --- Renaissance --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Marlowe, Christopher, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Rector en voormalig senator Rik Torfs bundelt zijn beste columns en opiniestukken van de afgelopen vijf jaar. Daarin gaat hij geen enkel heet hangijzer uit de weg. In zijn kenmerkende, poëtische maar bevlogen stijl heeft Torfs het over heilige huisjes zoals het geloof, het biechtgeheim, de nationale en de internationale politiek, theologie en euthanasie, maar evengoed over meer wereldse onderwerpen zoals Brussel, reizen met de trein, manchetknopen, kunst en literatuur. Het leven en hoe het te leiden volgens een van Vlaanderens scherpste pennen.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Dutch literature --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty in literature --- Liberté politique dans la littérature --- Politieke vrijheid in de literatuur --- BPB1601 --- # BIBC : Academic collection --- Homme politique |x Politicus |y EUROVOC (0436)

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Liberty in literature --- Liberty --- Renaissance --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Philosophy --- History --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects

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In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures the texts of both African-Atlantic and Anglo-Atlantic writers and how it takes shape by way of submerged intertextual exchanges between the two traditions. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a "native," "freedom-loving," "Anglo-Saxon" people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity--in novels, memoirs, pam phlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in Robinson Crusoe, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites' survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been "framed" by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition. Doyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern Engl ish-language imagination.--Publisher description.

American fiction --- English fiction --- Race in literature --- Liberty in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Race in literature. --- Liberty in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--

Historical fiction, English --- English literature --- Liberty in literature --- Commerce in literature --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- History and criticism --- Historical fiction, English. --- English literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1899