| Reviews |
| - '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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| Description | | - Reconceiving the Renaissance
will be the only comprehensive anthology of contemporary Renaissance criticism.
- It makes available carefully selected extracts from classic and cutting-edge criticism which students really ought to know.
- Sections on 'Textuality', 'Histories', 'Appropriation', 'Identities', 'Materiality' and 'Values' map out the discipline in detail.
- Each section is individually introduced by the editors and features some of the most exciting criticism of recent years, combining indispensable longer extracts with provocative shorter extracts in an absorbing 'narrative'.
- It also has the most organised pedagogical structure and most useful pedagogical features of any available book in the area.
- The General Introduction offers a clear overview of recent developments in the field.
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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.
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Readership: 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 recommeded as further reading on any number of more specific or more focused Renaissance literature modules, such as Shakespeare, Early Modern Women Writers etc.
The book should find a good market on US taught graduate courses in Renaissance literature and on MA courses in the UK, where students are required to engage more critically with a text.
| Contents |
1.
General Introduction: Reconceiving the Renaissance
2.
Textuality
3.
Histories
4.
Appropriation
5.
Identities
6.
Materiality
7.
Values
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ewan Fernie, Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London,
Ramona Wray, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast,
Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, and
Clare McManus, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast
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