The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.
Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
it contains a wide-ranging and judicious selection of critical and theoretical writings published in the last twenty-five years or so. * Richard Meek, MLR *
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
The book is suitable for use as a main text to accompany an anthology of primary texts on survey courses on Renaissance Literature. It can also be recommended as further reading on any number of more specific or more focused Renaissance literature modules, such as Shakespeare, Early Modern Women Writers etc.
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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978-0-19-926557-2 (9780199265572)
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Ewan Fernie (born 1971) won the James Elliott prize for his 1994 first-class degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he also achieved the Lanfine Bursary in English, the Horsliehill-Scott Bursary in Philosophy and a number of other prizes. He is Lecturer in Shakespeare at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Ramona Wray is Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast. She has published Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century (Northcote House, 2003) and has co-edited Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Macmillan, 1997) and Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle (Macmillan, 2000).
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, and Director of the Kenneth Branagh Archive. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture and Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture, and the editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.
Clare McManus is Lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast. Her research focuses on early modern European theatre and performance, and in particular on women's performance and cultural production. She is the author of Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619). She is also editor of Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens.
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, Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast
, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast
, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast
1. General Introduction: Reconceiving the Renaissance ; 2. Textuality ; 3. Histories ; 4. Appropriation ; 5. Identities ; 6. Materiality ; 7. Values
