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Literary Criticism

Unrepentant Renaissance From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

Strier Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226777511, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinfor...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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Literary Criticism

Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel

Aravamudan Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...

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