Renaissance Transformations : the Making of English Writing 1500-1651.

Renaissance Transformations : the Making of English Writing 1500-1651.

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 Renaissa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Healy, Margaret
Other Authors: Healy, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Making Writing:Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture; Chapter 1 Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing; Chapter 2 Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse; Chapter 3 Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates; Chapter 4 'Not without Mustard': Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London; Part II Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History; Chapter 5 The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship Through Collaboration; Chapter 6 The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community.
  • Chapter 7 Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance WritingChapter 8 The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing; Chapter 9 Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry; Chapter 10 Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions; Chapter 11 Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest; Chapter 12 'A Cat On A Post': Animal Events in.

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