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Reading Literature Historically
2013
Overview
How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere ‘secondary sources’ for historical analysis? This book makes the case for the study of literature in context. It demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them. It equally accepts the risks involved in that kind of study.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
/ English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
/ English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
/ English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
/ English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
/ To 1500
ISBN
0748681019, 9780748681013
