Carnival and literature in early modern England
By: by Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781409432081; 9781409432098
Subjects: Holidays in literature; English literature; Social norms in literature; Religion in literature; History and criticism; Carnival in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: carnival and literature in early modern England; title: Grotesque imperialists, alien scapegoats, and feasting in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; title: Protestant spiritualism, English nationalism, and holiday festivity in Spenser's Shepheardes calendar and The faerie queene; title: Carnival, economics, and social mobility in Dekker's Shoemaker's holiday, Shakespeare's Twelfth night and The winter's tale, and Jonson's Bartholomew fair; title: The decline of carnivalesque egalitarianism: Milton's Comus, Herrick's Hesperides, and Mardi Gras appropriations of renaissance texts in the American deep South.