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The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Richard Strier
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Hardcover. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? This title counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, intending to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with energies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
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 reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed. "The Unrepentant Renaissance" counters the prevalent view of the ... Read more
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 reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed. "The Unrepentant Renaissance" counters the prevalent view of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226777511
SKU
V9780226777511
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About Richard Strier
Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and in the College at the University of Chicago. He has coedited several interdisciplinary essay collections and is the author of two books, Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts, and Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry, the latter published by the ... Read more
Reviews for The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
"Well-articulated, intelligent, and written with the ease and confidence of a mature scholar. There is nothing in this book that isn't freshly thought through in an energetic and open way." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"