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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... relationship between state and scientific power is by now so massive that their ahistoricity is increasingly obvious.” She concludes that the sterile and circular metalinguistic exercises of new historicism do little service either to ...
... relationship between state and scientific power is by now so massive that their ahistoricity is increasingly obvious.” She concludes that the sterile and circular metalinguistic exercises of new historicism do little service either to ...
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... A theory of pluralism might begin, then, by stating a few assumptions about authors, texts, audiences, critics, and the relations of all of them to “reality” (however that term is defined).7 Thus, a pluralist might argue 16 Robert C. Evans.
... A theory of pluralism might begin, then, by stating a few assumptions about authors, texts, audiences, critics, and the relations of all of them to “reality” (however that term is defined).7 Thus, a pluralist might argue 16 Robert C. Evans.
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... 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 embedded in relations of power; they ...
... 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 embedded in relations of power; they ...
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... relation between Horkheimer and Adorno's assessment of Bacon and the new - historicist critiques such as that of Robert Stillman is firmly established in the latter's New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth - Century ...
... relation between Horkheimer and Adorno's assessment of Bacon and the new - historicist critiques such as that of Robert Stillman is firmly established in the latter's New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth - Century ...
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... relation to Bacon, see M. M. Slaughter, Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Twentieth-century at- tempts to create symbolic logic have been dramatically ...
... relation to Bacon, see M. M. Slaughter, Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Twentieth-century at- tempts to create symbolic logic have been dramatically ...
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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