Fault lines and controversies in the study of seventeenth-century English literature / edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pebworth, Ted-Larry.

Summers, Claude J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain--Civilization--17th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 236 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What Is Truth?" Defining and Defending Theoretical Pluralism

The Ahistoricism of the New Historicism Knowledge as Power versus Power as Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis

Conjecture in the Writing of Donne's Biography, with a Modest Proposal

Marvell's "Mower against Gardens" Reconsidering Bakhtinian Dialogism

In Defense of Empson A Reassessment of Milton's God

Milton and Dryden on the Restoration Stage

Profession or Performance? Religion in Early Modern Literary Study

John Donne and the Socinian Heresy

Critical Directions in the Study of Early Modern Sermons

The Poets of the Renaissance or, The Illusions of My Youth

Donne on Love Sometimes the End Just Doesn't Justify the Means

The Explication of Whiteness and Blackness

Milton's Lady and Lady Milton Chastity, Prophecy, and Gender in A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6408-5

OCLC:

56424869