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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... less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims, Evans points out the epistemo- logical, ethical, psychological, and pragmatic benefits of pluralism, especially the spirit of tolerance and ...
... less a theory about literature itself than a method of evaluating competing theoretical claims, Evans points out the epistemo- logical, ethical, psychological, and pragmatic benefits of pluralism, especially the spirit of tolerance and ...
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... less insistent earlier. Several decades of heated theoretical debate have called many basic assumptions of traditional literary study into doubt. Who, any longer, can answer with any confidence (or hope of consensus) such ap- parently ...
... less insistent earlier. Several decades of heated theoretical debate have called many basic assumptions of traditional literary study into doubt. Who, any longer, can answer with any confidence (or hope of consensus) such ap- parently ...
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... less to con- demn or dismiss, any of his potential readers” (212). Therefore, his somewhat effete Marxist “criticism [is] so eager for alliances that it graciously includes all methods and thus makes a generous appeal to all readers ...
... less to con- demn or dismiss, any of his potential readers” (212). Therefore, his somewhat effete Marxist “criticism [is] so eager for alliances that it graciously includes all methods and thus makes a generous appeal to all readers ...
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... less interested in transforming power relations than in ensuring that they work to his own advantage: his self-assertive tone is part of a competitive strategy. New-historicist theorists might also be interested in the ways the poem is ...
... less interested in transforming power relations than in ensuring that they work to his own advantage: his self-assertive tone is part of a competitive strategy. New-historicist theorists might also be interested in the ways the poem is ...
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... less important than its continued usefulness. One need not, for instance, accept the social, political, or religious views of a theorist (to name just a few potential compli- cations) in order to find his methods productive. Second, the ...
... less important than its continued usefulness. One need not, for instance, accept the social, political, or religious views of a theorist (to name just a few potential compli- cations) in order to find his methods productive. Second, the ...
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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