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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... fact , I find the book extremely valuable not only because it has genuinely helped me better understand some basic assumptions of plu- ralism , and not only because it inadvertently makes pluralism seem even more attractive to me , but ...
... fact , I find the book extremely valuable not only because it has genuinely helped me better understand some basic assumptions of plu- ralism , and not only because it inadvertently makes pluralism seem even more attractive to me , but ...
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... fact such a critic might even contend that although Jonson claims owner- ship of his book, both he and it are products of a far more complex system. The mere fact that Jonson must solicit (or demand) proper reading might sug- gest, to a ...
... fact such a critic might even contend that although Jonson claims owner- ship of his book, both he and it are products of a far more complex system. The mere fact that Jonson must solicit (or demand) proper reading might sug- gest, to a ...
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... fact , the precedent for regarding his projects as subversive rather than genuinely productive of so- cial change was much earlier established in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment . Written in the wake of ...
... fact , the precedent for regarding his projects as subversive rather than genuinely productive of so- cial change was much earlier established in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment . Written in the wake of ...
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... fact thrives in the new historicists ' Foucauldian account of epis- temic break . Robert Markley is broadly representative of just how and why this paradigm survives among critics who reject Jones's account of the march to modernity ...
... fact thrives in the new historicists ' Foucauldian account of epis- temic break . Robert Markley is broadly representative of just how and why this paradigm survives among critics who reject Jones's account of the march to modernity ...
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... fact that endless controversies will always arise concerning not just “ reality , but names and words ” as well . Although he also recognized that imprecise or overly meta- phoric language would further worsen the situation , his actual ...
... fact that endless controversies will always arise concerning not just “ reality , but names and words ” as well . Although he also recognized that imprecise or overly meta- phoric language would further worsen the situation , his actual ...
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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