Renaissance Transformations : : The Making of English Writing 1500-1650 / / Margaret Healy, Thomas Healy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Healy, Margaret,; Healy, Thomas,
• MitwirkendeR: Clarke, Danielle,; Hadfield, Andrew,; Healy, Margaret,; Healy, Thomas,; Klein, Bernhard,; O’Callaghan, Michelle,; Rhodes, Neil,; Richards, Jennifer,; Schoenfeldt, Michael,; Sherman, William H.,; Stewart, Alan,; Wiseman, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748638734);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 current academic inquiry - 'Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture', 'Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History' and 'Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances' - this innovative, timely volume is of fundamental importance to all those who study and teach Renaissance literature, history and culture.Contributors are Danielle Clarke, Andrew Hadfield, Margaret Healy, Thomas Healy, Bernhard Klein, Michelle O'Callaghan, Neil Rhodes, Jennifer Richards Michael Schoenfeldt, William Sherman, Alan Stewart, and Susan Wiseman."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture -- Chapter 1. Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing -- Chapter 2. Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse -- Chapter 3. Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates -- Chapter 4. ‘Not without Mustard’: Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London -- Part II. Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History -- Chapter 5. The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship Through Collaboration -- Chapter 6. The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community -- Chapter 7. Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing -- Chapter 8. The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing -- Part III. Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances -- Chapter 9. Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry -- Chapter 10. Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions -- Chapter 11. Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest -- Chapter 12. ‘A Cat On A Post’: Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index