The Forms of Renaissance Thought

New Essays in Literature and Culture

By: Leonard Barkan (Editor), Bradin Cormack (Editor), Sean Keilen (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The boundaries separating Literary Studies from other kinds of humanistic inquiry are more permeable now than at any moment since the Enlightenment, when disciplinary categories began to acquire their modern definition. The Forms of Renaissance Thought celebrates scholarship at a number of these frontiers. The contributors address works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the textured world of their origins and to a modern scholarly culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. In this way, the volume charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination.

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'This impressive collection of essays positions itself at the forefront of early modern literary studies, at the boundary between the new historicism and other recent studies of cross-disciplinary influence. The notion of 'form' as poised ambiguously between freedom and determination, between the external and outward on the one hand and the essential and inherently inward on the other, is essential to the enterprise. Form is a relationship between producer and consumer, making the composition and transmission of thought possible by shaping what can be said in political, social, and literary discourse. This collection of essays brilliantly encourages and deepens such a cross-disciplinary approach. This is a book not to miss.' - David Bevington, University of Chicago

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List of Illustrations
"The Form of Things Unknown": Renaissance Studies in a New Millennium	p. 1
Reception, Renovation, Renaissance	p. 13
Praxiteles' Aphrodite and the Love of Art	p. 15
English Literature in its Golden Age	p. 46
Translating for Queen Anne: John Florio's Decameron	p. 75
The First Reader of Shake-speares Sonnets	p. 86
Desire and the Disorganized Body	p. 107
The Play of Wanton Parts	p. 109
Shakespeare's Narcissus, Sonnet's Echo	p. 127
Coriolanus: The Rhythms and Remains of Excess	p. 150
The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge	p. 170
Intimate Matters	p. 199
Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare	p. 201
Shakespeare in Leather	p. 225
Digging the Dust: Renaissance Archivology	p. 246
Of Busks and Bodies	p. 261
Index	p. 277
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