Description: Premodern Places by David Wallace * A highly and engaging work by one of the worlds most renowned medievalists. * Recreates and connects the places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais – peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam – traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands). Includes fascinating anecdotes, such as the story of an English merchant learning love songs in Calais. Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race and slavery in Renaissance Europe. Crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and Renaissance periods. Back Cover Premodern Places invites readers to recover histories that move far beyond the traditional recital of dates and treaties. All of the places explored in this book were once of European or global importance: Calais (English from 1347–1558); Flanders (world leader in technological innovation); Somerset (home to Dante); Genoa (hub of the slave trade); the Canary or Fortunate Islands (the limits of western dreaming); Surinam (traded for Manhattan in 1667). Using songs and poems, maps, and pictures – and featuring pioneering travelers such as Dante and Chaucer, Columbus and St Brendan, Margery Kempe and Aphra Behn – this book restores place to historical and imaginative understanding. And in tracing the origins of New World slavery and black/white divides, Premodern Places discovers hidden pasts that continue to shape our complex, divided present. Flap This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders which led the world in technological innovations; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming. The books exploration of premodern places features fascinating vignettes, such as an English merchant learning love songs in Calais, coupled with insights into broader economic narratives of political, technological, religious, and economic change. In particular, it provides long geneaologies of blackness and whiteness, race and slavery, in the premodern world. Author Biography David Wallace is Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has traveled extensively, exploring the importance of place both for print and documentary radio. Table of Contents List of illustrations. Introduction. 1. At Calais Gate. 2. In Flaunders. 3. Dante in Somerset. 4. Genoa. 5. Canaries (The Fortunate Islands). 6. Surinam. Acknowledgments. Index Review "David Wallaces knowledge of European medieval literature is unequalled. His book is a cornucopia of illuminating details, insights and connections that are simply not to be found anywhere else." Terry Jones "My Cinderella prize for the years most underrated book goes to David Wallace, whose Premodern Places mixes romance and bizarrerie in a study of medieval and Renaissance ideas about geography and locality." Jonathan Keates, The Spectator Book of the Year feature, 2004 "This is one of the sharpest and most imaginative books of literary criticism Ive read in many years." Peter Hulme, University of Essex "Offering illuminating genealogies for a range of authors and literary texts, Premodern Places radically questions many assumptions about historical as well as geographic boundaries. … this book asks both premodernists and postcolonialists to rethink their disciplines and make urgent connections across space and time." Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania "… a most brilliant representative of Postcolonial Medieval Studies." José Rabasa, University of California Long Description This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders which led the world in technological innovations; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming. The book s exploration of premodern places features fascinating vignettes, such as an English merchant learning love songs in Calais, coupled with insights into broader economic narratives of political, technological, religious, and economic change. In particular, it provides long geneaologies of blackness and whiteness, race and slavery, in the premodern world. Review Text ?David Wallace?s knowledge of European medieval literature is unequalled. His book is a cornucopia of illuminating details, insights and connections that are simply not to be found anywhere else.? Terry Jones ?My Cinderella prize for the year?s most underrated book goes to David Wallace, whose Premodern Places mixes romance and bizarrerie in a study of medieval and Renaissance ideas about geography and locality.? Jonathan Keates, The Spectator Book of the Year feature, 2004 ?This is one of the sharpest and most imaginative books of literary criticism Ive read in many years.? Peter Hulme, University of Essex ?Offering illuminating genealogies for a range of authors and literary texts, Premodern Places radically questions many assumptions about historical as well as geographic boundaries. ? this book asks both premodernists and postcolonialists to rethink their disciplines and make urgent connections across space and time.? Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania ?? a most brilliant representative of Postcolonial Medieval Studies.? José Rabasa, University of California Review Quote "In this compelling book, the distinguished medievalist David Wallace takes us far beyond the traditional confines of the Middle Ages to explore relationships between the Old World and the emerging New. Through a series of dazzlingly original case studies, Wallace shows us how European pre- and early-Modern literary cultures shaped themselves against the geographical and social other. Chaucers poetry is illuminated by the lights not just of London but of Calais and Flanders. Dante finds a literary afterlife among provincial English humanists. The slave trade inflects readings of a host of poets, from Petrarch to Spenser, while the drama of Aphra Behn gives voice to what Wallace calls a history of "Anglophone imagining of white/black relations." This book synthesizes the best and most provocative of currents in contemporary scholarship, while offering a unique and intimate rereading of texts both familiar and new." Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University"Imagine that all the paths between places on our usual cultural map have been obliterated, and strange new paths have been created, some of them linking locales we thought we knew with others we had never heard of. That is the achievement of Premodern Places. One of the traditional cultural mappings it obliterates is that between Medieval and Early Modern. Countering Todorov, David Wallaces book shows how splendidly international the supposedly "insular" Middle Ages already was long before the discovery of the New World. As any voyage into unfamiliar territory should, he offers us surprises at every turn: Chaucer brushing shoulders with the slave trade in Genoa, Dante Alighieris Commedia alive and well in rustic sixteenth-century Somerset, and the love discourse of Abelard and Eloise in relation to the African speech of Surinam." Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University"My Cinderella prize for the years most underrated book goes to David Wallace, whose Pre-Modern [sic] Places (Blackwell, 55) mixes romance and bizarrerie in a study of mediaeval and Renaissance ideas about geography and locality." Jonathan Keates, The Spectator Book of the Year feature, 2004 Feature A highly and engaging work by one of the worlds most renowned medievalists. Recreates and connects the places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Explores the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations, among them Calais, Flanders, Somerset, Genoa, the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands), and Manhattan. Featuring fascinating vignettes, such as the story of an English merchant learning love songs in Calais. Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race and slavery in Renaissance Europe. Details ISBN1405151528 Author David Wallace Language English ISBN-10 1405151528 ISBN-13 9781405151528 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 809 Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Subtitle Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn Edition 1st Edition Description Revised Short Title PREMODERN PLACES REV/E Imprint Wiley-Blackwell DOI 10.1604/9781405151528 UK Release Date 2006-08-15 AU Release Date 2006-08-15 NZ Release Date 2006-08-15 US Release Date 2006-08-15 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Publication Date 2006-08-15 Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781405113939 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 354 Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126571759;
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Book Title: Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
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Author: David Wallace
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