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The Unrepentant Renaissance : from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton / Richard Strier.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN721 .S835 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strier, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Criticism and interpretation.
- Petrarca, Francesco.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 304, [4] pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Back to Burckhardt (Plus the Reformations)
- Part 1. In Defense of Passion and the Body. 1. Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert; 2. Against Judgment: Petrarch and Shakespeare at Sonnets; 3. Against Morality: From Richard III to Antony and Cleopatra. Appendix 1 Shakespearean Seduction; Appendix 2 Morality and the Happy Infant: The Case of Macbeth
- Part 2. In Defense of Worldliness. 4. Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors. Appendix Sanctifying the Aristocracy: From Ignatius Loyola to François de Sales (and then to Donne and Herbert)
- Part 3. In Defense of Pride. 5. Self-Revelation and Self-Satisfaction in Montaigne and Descartes; 6. Milton against Humility. Appendix "Lordly Command?".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- PN721.S835 2011: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2016 has dust jacket designed by Natalie F. Smith retained and underlines and marginal marks in text.
- ISBN:
- 9780226777511
- 0226777510
- OCLC:
- 689549086
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