Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Book Overview

Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the historical, cultural and epistemological underpinnings of lying and deception in early modern England (1500-1750). The book draws on a wide range of English literature from Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order to explore the extent to which plays, poems and narrative texts were sites of negotiation and, at times, of ideological warfare between the moral imperative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138651788
• ISBN13: 9781138651784
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"