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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974167903321

Autore

Healy Margaret

Titolo

Renaissance transformations : the making of English writing (1500-1650) / / edited by Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612620522

9780748651573

0748651578

9781282620520

1282620525

9780748642106

0748642102

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HealyMargaret <1955->

HealyThomas F

Disciplina

820.9003

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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