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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... scientific progress , or all three , the dark version of their paradigm not only sur- vives but in fact thrives in the new historicists ' Foucauldian account of epis- temic break . Robert Markley is broadly representative of just how ...
... scientific progress , or all three , the dark version of their paradigm not only sur- vives but in fact thrives in the new historicists ' Foucauldian account of epis- temic break . Robert Markley is broadly representative of just how ...
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... scientific history that it inherits from the Frank- fort school . As a result , its critics have failed to notice that the new - historicist concept of ideological “ demystification ” is ironically grounded in the Frank- fort school's ...
... scientific history that it inherits from the Frank- fort school . As a result , its critics have failed to notice that the new - historicist concept of ideological “ demystification ” is ironically grounded in the Frank- fort school's ...
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... scientific lan- guage resurfaced among the early-twentieth-century positivists, their dreams soon proved as unworkable as the self-clarifying universal language systems. early modern poetics in Practicing New Historicism. For an explicit ...
... scientific lan- guage resurfaced among the early-twentieth-century positivists, their dreams soon proved as unworkable as the self-clarifying universal language systems. early modern poetics in Practicing New Historicism. For an explicit ...
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... Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Twentieth-century at- tempts to create symbolic logic have been dramatically displaced by studies showing the meta- phoric, emotional, or ...
... Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Twentieth-century at- tempts to create symbolic logic have been dramatically displaced by studies showing the meta- phoric, emotional, or ...
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... scientific power is by now so massive that their ahistoricity is increasingly obvious even to those who at first ignored Liu's “ prophetic ” warning that their " Renaissance ' ... is really a simulation , a dream academy ...
... scientific power is by now so massive that their ahistoricity is increasingly obvious even to those who at first ignored Liu's “ prophetic ” warning that their " Renaissance ' ... is really a simulation , a dream academy ...
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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