The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture

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Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier
University of Chicago Press, 19.10.1988 - 377 Seiten
The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this collection. Rather than merely providing a sampler of any single critical movement, The Historical Renaissance represents the range of ways scholars and critics are fusing what many would once have distinguished as "literary" and "historical" concerns

The volume includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and Stuart periods. The scope of the collection is also manifest in its list of contributors. They include historians and literary critics, and their work spans he spectrum from more traditional methods to those characteristic of what has been termed "New Historicism."One aim of the book is to investigate the apparent division between these older and more current approaches. Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier evaluate the contemporary interest in historical studies of the Renaissance, relating it to previous developments in the field, surveying its achievements and limitations, and suggesting new directions for future work.

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The MIdTudor Scene
12
Shakespeare Politics and History
76
Poets Courtiers and the Monarchy
168
Part 4 Humanism and Its Discontents
270
Notes on Contributors
374
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (1988)

Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and in the College at the University of Chicago. He has coedited several interdisciplinary essay collections, is the author of many articles, and has written four books, most recently, Shakespearean Issues and The Unrepentant Renaissance, winner of the Warren-Brooks Award for Literary Criticism, published by the University of Chicago Press. Two of his coedited collections, Shakespeare and the Law and The Historical Renaissance, were also published with the University of Chicago Press.

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