Conal Condren

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ID1001194
NAMEConal Condren
GIVEN NAMESConal
FAMILY NAMECondren
SIGNATURECONDREN C
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-8262-5973
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Humour as umbrella term: Some Implications of a Classifier

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLEEuropean Journal of Humour Research2024Cited by: 1References: 5

    The word humour is often taken as an ‘umbrella term’. This article first briefly situates umbrella terms within a context of logically stable and unstable forms of classification. It outlines the reasons why the scope of what is studied as humour justifies the general designation that also encompasses a necessary degree of interdisciplinarity. The implications of this, however, can be at odds with how humour is treated in analysis: there can be f…

  • Between Laughter and Satire: Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour

    Open AccessConal CondrenBOOKBetween Laughter and Satire2023

    This book disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from antiquity and outlines an alternative conceptual history.

  • Between Laughter and Satire: Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour

    Conal CondrenBOOKBetween Laughter and Satire2023

  • Mapping the contours of humour: Reflections on recent introductory studies

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLEEuropean Journal of Humour Research2021Cited by: 1References: 3

    Introductions to fields of studies are almost a sub-genre in their own right, but are often resistant to direct comparison. The essay discusses four recent introductions to humour published by university presses, and what more broadly they may signify about disciplinary advertisement and consolidation. It emphasises a range of difficulties endemic to the study of humour arising from its interdisciplinarity, recent establishment, the variable rang…

  • John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2019

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  • The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516 – 1651 by Henry S. Turner

    Conal CondrenARTICLECommon Knowledge2018

    Book Review| August 01 2018 The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516 – 1651 by Henry S. Turner Turner, Henry S., The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516 – 1651 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 344 pp. Conal Condren Conal Condren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6939…

  • The Political Bible in Early Modern England

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2018

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  • The History of Political Thought as secular genealogy: The case of liberty in early modern England

    Conal CondrenARTICLEIntellectual History Review2017Cited by: 1References: 11

    The History of Political Thought originated in, and partially remains an adjunct to the academic study of politics. As such it is not a mere subject matter or authentic tradition of speculation, but a secularising genealogy in some tension with an impulse to rigorous historicity. It provides an under-acknowledged context for the thinkers and concepts placed within it. The difficulties and consequent distortions are illustrated with reference to s…

  • Printed Passion: Sympathy, Satire, and the Translation of Homer (1675–1720)

    Open AccessConal CondrenCHAPTERPassions, Sympathy and Print…2016

    Whatever value there may be in the notion of a long eighteenth century, it needs to be overlaid with a sense of the fragmented continuation of the seventeenth. For any growth of stability associated with party government, and civilised accommodation, gathered around the importance of sentiment, the values of politeness, sociability, sympathy, and being candid with one’s fellows, did not come easily. Such values and achievements were periodically …

  • Skepticism and Political Constancy: Richard II and the Garden Scene as a “Model of State”

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLEThe Review of Politics2016References: 5

    Many readers have taken the garden scene in Richard II and the voice of its Gardener to constitute a relatively straightforward statement of Shakespeare's notions of good government and constancy in political conduct, in stark contrast to the political disorder depicted in the play. I argue, however, that read in the context of the political and moral issues Shakespeare explored, its value or even relevance to his political world is questionable.…

  • The Letterbooks of John Evelyn

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

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  • The philosopher H obbes as the poet H omer

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLERenaissance Studies2014Cited by: 1

    Until recently H obbes's translations of H omer have received little attention. That he made some effort to make the epics conform to his political doctrines has been established. The argument here is that the translations as a whole are informed by his conception of philosophy and his sense of the philosopher's responsibility. The oversimplification of his understanding of philosophy has itself helped isolate his H omer from the rest of his work…

  • Historiographical Myth, Discipline, and Contextual Distortion

    Conal CondrenARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2014Cited by: 1

    Although academic disciplines are given to mythologising their own histories, corrective historicisation is no straightforward matter. Anachronisms are most difficult to avoid where our own tacit understandings of the world are used to help structure contexts that are themselves often unstable and indeterminate. This is often the case in attempts to relate agents and propositions to a context of pre-existing problems. Propositions and concepts th…

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

    David Armitage, Conal Condren et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2013

    Armitage, David, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice (eds.). Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 5-187), on Érudit

  • The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England

    Open AccessConal CondrenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2013

    Ethan H. Shagan. The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii + 382 pp. $32.99. ISBN: 978–0–521–13556–6. - Volume 66 Issue 2

  • Lawson: Politica Sacra et Civilis

    Conal Condren, George LawsonBOOKLawson2012

  • Whether episcopacy be the primary subject of the Power of the Keys

    George Lawson, Conal CondrenCHAPTERLawson2012

    The prelate presumes that the Power of the Keys is his, and he thinks his title very good, and so good, that though he could not prove the institution, yet prescription will bear him out. For he hath had possession for a long time: and universality and antiquity seem to favour him very much. Yet I hope his title may be examined; and if upon examination it prove good, he hath no cause to be offended, except with this, that I of all others should m…

  • Principal dates

    George Lawson, Conal CondrenCHAPTERLawson2012

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  • Dedicatory poem

    George Lawson, Conal CondrenCHAPTERLawson2012

    Which author's work lends system to the ancient art of ruling, And gives endurance to the sceptre's sway? His simply written page has taught great nations, Giving peace to peoples and to princes, trust. Public office is defined by the exertions of the private hand; Behold how one man labours at the public weal, So well he settles kingdoms, it seems he might have ruled, Oh how much greater than his station he was! Houses built upon this concisely …

  • Satire and definition

    Conal CondrenARTICLEHumor - International Journal of…2012Cited by: 13

    This paper explores some of the difficulties involved in defining satire. Neither the formal characteristics of satire nor its informing purposes, including its variable associations with humour and the provocation of amusement allow for a unifying definition over the long term. It considers a range of approaches to and types of definition and takes as a principle example the notion of Menippean satire. It argues that a characterisation in terms …

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

    David Armitage, Conal Condren et al.BOOKShakespeare and Early Modern…2010

  • George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution

    Conal CondrenBOOKGeorge Lawson's 'Politica' and…2009

  • Public, Private and the Idea of the ‘Public Sphere’ in Early–modern England

    Conal CondrenARTICLEIntellectual History Review2009Cited by: 2

  • The perplexities of satire

    Conal CondrenARTICLEHumor - International Journal of…2009References: 1

    Juan Francisco Elices Agudo: Historical and Theoretical Approaches toEnglish Satire. Munich: LINCOM, 2004. 200 pp.Satire is a persistent irritant to all who wish to establish a unified theory,or to write a history over the long duration. The word itself is notoriouslyslippery, raising questions of whether it is definable in terms of a core fea-ture, or a related syndrome of characteristics. Surveying the wealth ofmaterials deemed satiric might ev…

  • Introduction: The Persona of the Philosopher in the Eighteenth Century

    Conal Condren, I HunterARTICLEIntellectual History Review2008Cited by: 1