Fault lines and controversies in the study of seventeenth-century English literature

Folger bibliographic ID: 122345
Folger call number: PR431 .F38 2002
Folger holdings ID: 115137

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

'What is truth?' : defining and defending theoretcal pluralism / Robert C. Evans -- The ahistoricism of the new historicism : knowledge as power versus power as knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- Conjecture in the writing of Donne's biography, with a modest proposal / Dennis Flynn -- Marvell's 'mower against gardens' : reconsidering Bakhtinian dialogism / Dan Jaeckle -- In defense of Empson : a reassessment of Milton's God / Tobias Gregory -- Milton and Dryden on the Restoration stage -- Profession or performance? Religion in early modern literary study / Kate Narveson -- John Donne and the Socinian heresy / Jeffrey Johnson -- Critical directions in the study of early modern sermons / P.G. Stanwood -- The poets of the Renaissance; or, The illusions of my youth / Sharon Cadman Seelig -- Donne on love : sometimes the end just doesn't justify the means / Joan Faust -- 'The explication of whiteness and blackness' : skin color and the physics of color in the works of Robert Boyle and Margaret Cavendish / Cristina Malcolmson -- Milton's lady and Lady Milton : chastity, prophecy, and gender in A maske presented at Ludlow Castle / William Shullenberger

Extended title: Fault lines and controversies in the study of seventeenth-century English literature / edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth

English literature Literature and society Literature and history Great Britain

associated with: Summers, Claude J
associated with: Pebworth, Ted-Larry