The Forms of Renaissance Thought

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: “The Form of Things Unknown”: Renaissance Studies in a New Millennium

   1. Introduction: “The Form of Things Unknown”: Renaissance Studies in a New Millennium

      • Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sean Keilen

      Pages 1-12

3. Reception, Renovation, Renaissance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Praxiteles’ Aphrodite and the Love of Art

      • Leonard Barkan

      Pages 15-45

   3. English Literature in its Golden Age

      • Sean Keilen

      Pages 46-74

   4. Translating for Queen Anne: John Florio’s Decameron

      • Michael Wyatt

      Pages 75-85

   5. The First Reader of Shake-speares Sonnets

      • Margreta de Grazia

      Pages 86-106

4. Desire and the Disorganized Body

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. The Play of Wanton Parts

      • Jonathan Goldberg

      Pages 109-126

   3. Shakespeare’s Narcissus, Sonnet’s Echo

      • Bradin Cormack

      Pages 127-149

   4. Coriolanus: The Rhythms and Remains of Excess

      • Peter Holland

      Pages 150-169

   5. The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge

      • Valerie Traub

      Pages 170-198

5. Intimate Matters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare

      • A. R. Braunmuller

      Pages 201-224

   3. Shakespeare in Leather

      • Anston Bosman

      Pages 225-245

   4. Digging the Dust: Renaissance Archivology

      • William H. Sherman

      Pages 246-260

   5. Of Busks and Bodies

      • Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass

      Pages 261-276

6. Back Matter

   Pages 277-284

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This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination.

• English literature
• essay
• Europe
• Renaissance

'This impressive collection of essays positions itself at the forefront of early modern literary studies, at the boundary between the new historicism and other recent studies of cross-disciplinary influence. The notion of 'form' as poised ambiguously between freedom and determination, between the external and outward on the one hand and the essential and inherently inward on the other, is essential to the enterprise. Form is a relationship between producer and consumer, making the composition and transmission of thought possible by shaping what can be said in political, social, and literary discourse. This collection of essays brilliantly encourages and deepens such a cross-disciplinary approach. This is a book not to miss.' - David Bevington, University of Chicago

• Princeton University, USA

  Leonard Barkan

• University of Chicago, USA

  Bradin Cormack

• The College of William and Mary, USA

  Sean Keilen

ANSTON BOSMAN is Associate Professor and Director of Studies in English at Amherst College, USA. A. R. BRAUNMULLER teaches early modern and modern drama at UCLA, USA. MARGRETA DE GRAZIA is the Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. JONATHAN GOLDBERG is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory University, USA. PETER HOLLAND is McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA. ANN ROSALIND JONES is Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature at Smith College, USA. WILLIAM H. SHERMAN is Director of the Centre for Renaissance& Early Modern Studies at the University of York, UK. PETER STALLYBRASS is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. VALERIE TRAUB is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. MICHAEL WYATT is an independent scholar and fellow of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies. He teaches at Stanford, USA.

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