Susan Harlan crée des essais qui explorent les liens complexes entre le lieu, la mémoire et les objets qui nous entourent. Son écriture aborde des questions féministes et une satire acerbe, examinant souvent comment les espaces physiques et les biens matériels façonnent nos identités et reflètent nos histoires. La prose de Harlan se caractérise par son esprit et ses aperçus profonds sur le tissu de la vie quotidienne.
Introduction: Travel and Its Objects 1. Luggage and Secrets 2. The Language of Luggage 3. Packing 4. My Luggage 5. Lost Luggage: Alabama's Unclaimed Baggage Center Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes Index
From Lady Macbeth's favourite room in the castle, to Lizzy Bennet's vision of Pemberly, this delightfully satirical book brings literary backdrops to the foreground by reimagining characters as homeowners who reveal their tastes in interiors The Bookseller
Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.