Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-century English LiteratureClaude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stocktaking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward. They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future. |
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... context of the history of sexuality, demon- strate how the “scientific outlook” of the Royal Society inculcated a kind of racialized thinking, and examine Milton's cult of chastity and theology of gen- der. The original, abbreviated ...
... context of the history of sexuality, demon- strate how the “scientific outlook” of the Royal Society inculcated a kind of racialized thinking, and examine Milton's cult of chastity and theology of gen- der. The original, abbreviated ...
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... Philistine audience . ” By placing Samson Agonistes in the context of the literary and political culture in which Renaissance drama was generated , Sauer exposes the fault lines in the critical tradition of the Introduction 5.
... Philistine audience . ” By placing Samson Agonistes in the context of the literary and political culture in which Renaissance drama was generated , Sauer exposes the fault lines in the critical tradition of the Introduction 5.
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... context , and that the sermons are too often excerpted and not looked at as wholes . He sees as desirable an em- phasis on “ the management of the entire text ” of individual sermons and a fuller exploration of the rhetorical traditions ...
... context , and that the sermons are too often excerpted and not looked at as wholes . He sees as desirable an em- phasis on “ the management of the entire text ” of individual sermons and a fuller exploration of the rhetorical traditions ...
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... context. She concludes, “Echoes of classical and early modern medical, ecclesiastical, and philosophical apprehensions of physical consum- mation in Donne's writings are too strong to ignore, and they help to trace a major fault line in ...
... context. She concludes, “Echoes of classical and early modern medical, ecclesiastical, and philosophical apprehensions of physical consum- mation in Donne's writings are too strong to ignore, and they help to trace a major fault line in ...
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... context by arguing, for example, that the work reflects the rise of a rather impersonal system of marketing: printed books were not presented to individual readers (as manuscripts might once have been); in- stead, they were marketed to ...
... context by arguing, for example, that the work reflects the rise of a rather impersonal system of marketing: printed books were not presented to individual readers (as manuscripts might once have been); in- stead, they were marketed to ...
Contents
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Dennis Flynn | 50 |
Tobias Gregory | 73 |
Elizabeth Sauer | 88 |
Kate Narveson | 111 |
Jeffrey Johnson | 130 |
Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons | 140 |
Sharon Cadman Seelig | 156 |
Joan Faust | 170 |
Cristina Malcolmson | 187 |
William Shullenberger | 204 |
Notes on Contributors | 227 |
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