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<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant&nbsp;theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stock-taking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward.&nbsp;They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future.</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the essays collected here explore the points of friction, vulnerability, and division that have emerged in literary study of all periods at the end of the twentieth century, such as theory, gender, sexuality, race, and religion. Others are more narrowly focused on fault lines and controversies peculiar to the study of Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature. At the same time nearly all of these essays exam

Author
Summers, Claude J.; Pebworth, Ted-Larry
Publisher
Columbia: University of Missouri Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780826214232
Subjects
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

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