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Renaissance transformations : the making of English writing (1500-1650) / edited by Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Healy, Margaret, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 asserts the centrality of historical understanding in shaping critical vision. This collection of distinctive new essays explores the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social processes that moulded literary writing in the Renaissance. Acutely attentive to the complexities that we confront in our attempts to understand the past, this book explores important relations among literary form, material and imaginative culture which compel our attention in the twenty-first century. Addressing three crucial areas at the forefront of
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Making writing : form, rhetoric and print culture
- pt. 2. Shaping communities : textual spaces, mapping history
- pt. 3. Embodying change : psychic and somatic performances.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612620522
- 9780748651573
- 0748651578
- 9781282620520
- 1282620525
- 9780748642106
- 0748642102
- OCLC:
- 638860035
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