Differing returns: on history, bodies and early modern lives

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Johnson, Laurie. 2009. "Differing returns: on history, bodies and early modern lives." Early Modern Literary Studies: a journal of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.
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Differing returns: on history, bodies and early modern lives

ERA Journal ID11549
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AuthorJohnson, Laurie
Journal TitleEarly Modern Literary Studies: a journal of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature
Number of Pages9
Year2009
Place of PublicationSheffield, United Kingdom
ISSN1201-2459
Web Address (URL)http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-19/johnretu.html
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This review essay uses recent publications by David Hillman and Elena Levy-Navarro as points of focus for consideration of the state of play in the 'return to the body' in Early Modern Literary Studies in the last two decades.

Keywordsearly modern; literature; embodiment; Shakespeare
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470504. British and Irish literature
470530. Stylistics and textual analysis
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