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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James Simpson (Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.398kg ISBN: 9780199591657ISBN 10: 0199591652 Pages: 238 Publication Date: 30 November 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback 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 ContentsAcknowledgements Contents Figures Introduction 1: Iconoclasm in Melbourne, Massachusetts and The Museum of Modern Art 2: Learn to Die: Late Medieval English Images Before the Law 3: Statues of Liberty: Iconoclasm and Idolatry in the English Revolution 4: Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Works Cited IndexReviews"beautifully written and illustrated ... This is a splendid book from which anyone trained in medieval or early modern literature, art history, religious studies, theology, or philosophy, could certainly profit ... Simpson's brilliant and provocative book actually becomes an insight into a profound ""absence"" in Anglo- American modern culture. * Brenda Deen Schildgen, The Medieval Review * what makes this book worth reading is its focus on ... the ""exhaustion"" of the ceaseless struggle to escape the image since the Protestant Reformation. ... What is compelling about all of this is that even though one might take issue, as a specialist, with certain of Simpson's readings of history or historical texts and objects, it reminds us to be vigilant against our own scholarly idols and our tendency to view the iconoclastic impulse as Other. * Alexa Sand, The Sixteenth Century Journal *" beautifully written and illustrated ... This is a splendid book from which anyone trained in medieval or early modern literature, art history, religious studies, theology, or philosophy, could certainly profit ... Simpson's brilliant and provocative book actually becomes an insight into a profound absence in Anglo- American modern culture. Brenda Deen Schildgen, The Medieval Review Author InformationJames 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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