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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Formalism (Literary analysis) [Browse]
• Historical criticism (Literature) [Browse]

Editor

• Moschovakis, Nicholas Rand, 1969- [Browse]
• Paster, Gail Kern [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]
• Essays [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors' introduction-a far-reaching account of how both methods have intersected in studies of early modern English texts since the 1990s-is the first such survey in more than 15 years, making it invaluable to scholars entering this area. Three essays address foundational questions about genre, fictionality, and formlessness; five feature close readings of texts or passages ranging from the more canonical (Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton) to the less so (an official record of the 1604 Hampton Court Conference). For scholars and students alike, the book thus models a variety of ways both to conceptualize and to analyze the value of literature at the formal-historical interface. Encompassing drama, lyric, satirical and polemical prose, and metrical as well as rhetorical and logical forms, the collection closes with an afterword by theorist Caroline Levine"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: form, history, and value / Nick Moschovakis and Gail Kern Paster
• Formless / Douglas Bruster
• Fictionalizing place on the Shakespearean stage / Benedict S. Robinson
• Genre as sign in John Milton's Samson Agonistes / Daniel Allen Shore
• Logical form and the history of divorce: Adriana's speech on marriage in The comedy of errors / Nick Moschovakis
• Conforming to authority: The summe and substance and satiric expression in the early Stuart era / Joseph Navitsky
• "Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven": form and feeling in dramatic apostrophe / Gail Kern Paster
• "A madrigal of procreation": intermedial balletts and the Renaissance English theater / Jennifer Linhart Wood
• Form and knowledge in "Love" / Richard Strier
• Afterword / Caroline Levine.

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ISBN

• 9781032437033 (hardcover)
• 1032437030 (hardcover)
• 9781032437040 (paperback)
• 1032437049 (paperback)

LCCN

2024008046

OCLC

1420449113

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