Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus

Reconceiving the Renaissance will be the only comprehensive anthology of contemporary Renaissance criticism.
It makes available carefully selected extracts from classic and cutting-edge criticism which students really ought to know.
Sections on 'Textuality', 'Histories', 'Appropriation', 'Identities', 'Materiality' and 'Values' map out the discipline in detail.
Each section is individually introduced by the editors and features some of the most exciting criticism of recent years, combining indispensable longer extracts with provocative shorter extracts in an absorbing 'narrative'.
It also has the most organised pedagogical structure and most useful pedagogical features of any available book in the area.
The General Introduction offers a clear overview of recent developments in the field.

Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus

Description

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.

Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves.

Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus

Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus

Author Information

Ewan Fernie, Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, Ramona Wray, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, Mark Thornton Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, and Clare McManus, Lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast

Contributors:

Ewan Fernie, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ramona Wray, Queen's University, Belfast
Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University, Belfast
Clare McManus, Queen's University, Belfast

Reconceiving the Renaissance

A Critical Reader

Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus

Reviews and Awards

"it contains a wide-ranging and judicious selection of critical and theoretical writings published in the last twenty-five years or so." - Richard Meek, MLR