Games and War in Early Modern English Literature

From Shakespeare to Swift
0. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6372-801-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm

Reihe: Cultures of Play

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Holly Faith

Daems, James William

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alker, Sharon

Cooper, Karol

Currell, David

A., Lori

Ellison, Katherine

Fang, Louise

Galbraith, Jeffrey

Lawrence, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

The Interplay of Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: An Introduction

Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson

'Can this cock-pit hold the vasty fields of France?' Cockfighting and the Representation of War in Shakespeare's Henry V

Louise Fang

Game Over: Play and War in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Sean Lawrence

Thomas Morton's Maypole: Revels, War Games, and Trans-Atlantic Conflict

Jim Daems

Milton's Epic Games: War and Recreation in Paradise Lost

David Currell

Ciphers and Gaming for Pleasure and War

Katherine Ellison

Virtual Reality, Roleplay, and World Building in Margaret Cavendish's Literary War Games

Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

Dice, Jesting, and the 'Pleasing Delusion' of War-Like Love in Aphra Behn's The Luckey Chance

Karol Cooper

War and Games in Swift's The Battle of the Books and Gulliver's Travels.

Lori A. Davis Perry

Time-Servers, Turncoats, and the Hostile Reprint: Considering the Conflict of a Paper War

Jeffrey Galbraith

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daems, James William
Jim Daems is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University College of the North. He has published articles and books on a range of early modern and long-eighteenth century topics and authors.

Nelson, Holly Faith
Holly Faith Nelson, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. Her work on women’s writing, gender and literature, and religion and literature has appeared in a wide range of journals and essay collections over the past two decades

Jim Daems is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University College of the North. He has published articles and books on a range of early modern and long-eighteenth century topics and authors. His two book-length studies are entitled Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture (Continuum) and 'A Warr So Desperate': John Milton and Some Contemporaries on The Irish Rebellion (Cambridge Scholars). He also edited, with Holly Faith Nelson, Eikon Basilike with Selections from Eikonoklastes (Broadview). Holly Faith Nelson is Professor, Chair and Graduate Stream Coordinator of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Trinity Western University and the Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute. She has published widely in the literature of the seventeenth and long eighteenth centuries. She has authored or co-authored approximately 30 articles (in addition to many brief entries, notes, and book reviews) and has co-edited eight books, including Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe (AMS), French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400-2000 (U of Delaware P), Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate), Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory (Wilfrid Laurier UP), James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate), Eikon Basilike with Selections from Eikonoklastes (Broadview), Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum (U of Delaware P, 2004), and the Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose (Broadview).