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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... course , why should a student even be in a class in the first place , unless to have the identity , or ide- ology , or the assumptions of his or her exclusive group affirmed ? At what point , moreover , does the process of exclusion ...
... course , why should a student even be in a class in the first place , unless to have the identity , or ide- ology , or the assumptions of his or her exclusive group affirmed ? At what point , moreover , does the process of exclusion ...
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... course, none of these projects has quite the excitement of the latest new thing, but I suspect that they will enjoy longer staying power than whatever is the newest latest fad. Ironically, the fads themselves may someday seem old ...
... course, none of these projects has quite the excitement of the latest new thing, but I suspect that they will enjoy longer staying power than whatever is the newest latest fad. Ironically, the fads themselves may someday seem old ...
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... course, might easily see this attempt as part of a more general anxiety often apparent in Jonson—as part of a more general compulsion to assert, maintain, or retain control. Such a critic might contend, for instance, that Jonson en ...
... course, might easily see this attempt as part of a more general anxiety often apparent in Jonson—as part of a more general compulsion to assert, maintain, or retain control. Such a critic might contend, for instance, that Jonson en ...
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... course, was his status as a male—a status that would naturally interest feminist critics. One kind of feminist, for example, might see the poem as typically male in its emphasis on clear ownership, proper proce- dure, and right reason ...
... course, was his status as a male—a status that would naturally interest feminist critics. One kind of feminist, for example, might see the poem as typically male in its emphasis on clear ownership, proper proce- dure, and right reason ...
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... course, to continue offering brief glimpses of Jon- son's poem from any number of other critical perspectives, such as the post- modernist, the phenomenological, the hermeneutical, and many others, not to mention the Platonic ...
... course, to continue offering brief glimpses of Jon- son's poem from any number of other critical perspectives, such as the post- modernist, the phenomenological, the hermeneutical, and many others, not to mention the Platonic ...
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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