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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... literary criticism of extraliter- ary moral judgment . ” Adopting Susan Noakes's terminology , Gregory divides ... literary history : a product of the Restoration , it repudiates Restoration literary culture and hearkens back to the ...
... literary criticism of extraliter- ary moral judgment . ” Adopting Susan Noakes's terminology , Gregory divides ... literary history : a product of the Restoration , it repudiates Restoration literary culture and hearkens back to the ...
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... literary genre in earlier seventeenth - century England . ” Stanwood notes that most recent critical work on the early modern sermons has con- centrated on stylistics , political content , and context , and that the sermons are too ...
... literary genre in earlier seventeenth - century England . ” Stanwood notes that most recent critical work on the early modern sermons has con- centrated on stylistics , political content , and context , and that the sermons are too ...
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... literary studies but of early modern thought in general.” Cristina Malcolmson confronts the fault lines of race, gender, and science in her exploration of skin color and the physics of color in the works of Rob- ert Boyle and Margaret ...
... literary studies but of early modern thought in general.” Cristina Malcolmson confronts the fault lines of race, gender, and science in her exploration of skin color and the physics of color in the works of Rob- ert Boyle and Margaret ...
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... literary study into doubt. Who, any longer, can answer with any confidence (or hope of consensus) such ap- parently simple questions as these: What is literature? What is an author? What is a fact? Are “facts” even possible? What makes ...
... literary study into doubt. Who, any longer, can answer with any confidence (or hope of consensus) such ap- parently simple questions as these: What is literature? What is an author? What is a fact? Are “facts” even possible? What makes ...
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... literary study.3 If anything, for Rooney these trends have not gone far enough, and rather than conceiving of literary study as conversation ,. 1. See, for example, the influential anthology titled Critics and Criticism: Essays in Method ...
... literary study.3 If anything, for Rooney these trends have not gone far enough, and rather than conceiving of literary study as conversation ,. 1. See, for example, the influential anthology titled Critics and Criticism: Essays in Method ...
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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