Renaissance Transformations The Making of English Writing 1500-1650

by Healy, Margaret; Healy, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780748638734
• ISBN10: 0748638733
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-05
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Margaret Healy is Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics and is currently completing Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lovers Complaint', Alchemy and the Creative Imagination. Thomas Healy is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Head of the School of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of books on Crashaw, Marlowe, and on Theory and Renaissance Literature. He is completing The English Boat: The Poetics of Sectarianism in Early Modern England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Making Writing: Form, Rhetoric and Print Culture
Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing	p. 15
Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse	p. 32
Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates	p. 48
'Not without Mustard': Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London	p. 64
Shaping Communities: Textual Spaces, Mapping History
The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship Through Collaboration	p. 81
The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community	p. 97
Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing	p. 112
The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing	p. 128
Embodying Change: Psychic and Somatic Performances
Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry	p. 145
Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions	p. 161
Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest	p. 177
'A Cat On A Post': Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing	p. 192
Notes on Contributors	p. 208
Index	p. 211
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