Talking Renaissance Texts
Essays in Honor of Stanley Stewart: Ben Jonson Journal Volume 16
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7486-3930-4 (ISBN)
Description
For over four decades, Stanley Stewart has been a major voice in Renaissance literary studies. Stewart has explored the imagery of religious verse, re-examined the categorical implications of 'major' and 'minor' poets and playwrights, and pioneered the use of Wittgensteinian analysis in literature. Still more recently, he has proven to be an adamant and intelligent defender of the traditions and wisdom of humanistic study and criticism. These essays in his honour rely upon Stewart's methodological approaches to examine literary and philosophical texts in their contexts. Contributors include: R. V. Young, Arthur F. Kinney, Robert C. Evans, Grace Ioppolo, John Mulyran, Sara van den Berg, Paul J. Voss, Richard Harp, Cyndia Susan Clegg, Scott F. Crider, Tom Clayton, John Channing Briggs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-3930-4 (9780748639304)
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Persons
Jeffrey Kahan is Professor, Department of English, University of La Verne. M. Thomas Hester is Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University.
Content
Preface: Acknowledgments; Talking Renaissance Texts: A Foreword; Introduction: The Work of Stanley Stewart; 1. Reading 'more wit' in Donne and Catullus, M. Thomas Hester; 2. Donne's Catholic Conscience and the Wit of Religious Anxiety, R. V. Young; 3. George Herbert's Early Readers, Arthur F. Kinney; 4. The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the 'Truest' Version of Ben Jonson's 'A Satyricall Shrubb', Grace Ioppolo; 5. 'Shakespear wanted Arte': Questioning the Historical Value of Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond, Jeffrey Kahan; 6. 'The Primrose Way to the Everlasting Bonfire': The Choice of Hercules in Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton, John Mulryan; 7. Full Sight, Fancied Sight, and Touch: Milton's Sonnet 23 and Molyneux's Question, Sara van den Berg; 8. Catholicism in Print: Tudor Books in the Douay College Museum at St. Edmund's, Paul J. Voss; 9. Proverbs, Philosophy, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and King Lear, Richard Harp; 10. Othello's Tragedy and Uncommon Law, Cyndia Susan Clegg; 11. Eloquence Repaired: Thomas Wilson's New Myth of the Origin and Nature of Oratory, Scott F. Crider; 12. Meter and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Modest Suggestion, Tom Clayton; 13. Romeo and Juliet and the Cure of Souls, John Channing Briggs; 14. 'Despair Behind, and Death Before'; Comparing and Contrasting the Meditative Sonnets of Anne Vaughn Locke and John Donne, Robert C. Evans; Bibliography of Stanley Stewart; Contributors; Index.