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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806902703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8262-6408-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 236 p

Altri autori (Persone)

PebworthTed-Larry

SummersClaude J

Disciplina

820.9/004

Soggetti

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

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

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

Great Britain Civilization 17th century

Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.