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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Cummings , James SimpsonPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.30cm Weight: 1.136kg ISBN: 9780198724476ISBN 10: 0198724470 Pages: 702 Publication Date: 08 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary HistoryBrian Cummings & James Simpson: HISTORIES Margreta de Grazia: Anachronism Ardis Butterfield: National Histories Jesse Lander: Historiography Seth Lerer: Literary Histories SPATIALITIES James Simpson: Place Lynn Staley: Enclosed Spaces Andrew Hadfield: Travel DOCTRINES David Aers/ Sarah Beckwith: The Eucharist Janel Mueller: The Saints Thomas Betteridge: Vernacular Theology Paul Strohm: Conscience LEGALITIES Lorna Hutson: Theatre Tim William Machan: When English became Latin David Loewenstein: Heresy and Treason David Scott Kastan: Naughty Printed Books OUTSIDE THE LAW Stephen Greenblatt: Utopian Pleasure Greg Walker: Folly Nicholas Watson: Despair LITERATURE Helen Cooper: Poetic Fame Gordon Teskey: 'Literature' Maura Nolan: Style Julia Boffey: London Books and London Readers COMMUNITIES Cathy Shrank: Community Colin Burrow: The Reformation of the Household Vincent Gillespie: Monasticism David Wallace: Nuns LABOUR Jennifer Summit: Active and Contemplative Lives Alexandra Barratt: Childbirth James Kearney: Idleness SELFHOOD John Parker: Persona Ramie Targoff: Passion Brian Cummings: Autobiography and the History of Reading INDEXReviewsThere is a wonderful diversity of texts, approaches and ideas on offer here...an exciting and diverse volume. Mike Rodman Jones, Journal of Northern Renaissance An ambitious volume ... should hold great appeal to students and scholars seeking fresh perspectives on familiar topics. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 * `There is a wonderful diversity of texts, approaches and ideas on offer here...an exciting and diverse volume.' Mike Rodman Jones, Journal of Northern Renaissance Author InformationBrian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and was founding Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies from 2004 to 2008. He received his BA and PhD at Cambridge University, and before moving to Sussex was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford University Press, 2002), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2003. A paperback edition of this book appeared in July 2007. He has also published widely in journals such as English Literary Renaissance and Studies in Church History , and is a contributor to The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (1999) and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He was previously Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge (1999-2003). He is a Life Fellow of Fellow of Girton College and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Longman, 1990); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002) (winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, 2007); and Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007) (winner of the Silver Medal, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, religion category). He is currently writing about iconoclasm in the Anglo-American tradition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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