Textures of Renaissance Knowledge - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719064643 ISBN 13: 9780719064647

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume addresses the multiple, complex and sometimes contradictory forms of knowledge in circulation during a period recognized as a turning point in the intellectual history of Western Europe, and described today alternatively as "early modern" or "Renaissance." The problems of the label "early modern" are discussed, including the implied rupture with earlier periods, and the consequent denial of the difference or "otherness" of the textures of these forms of knowledge. Drawing on a range of critical discourses, the essays collected here engage with these textures in the more nuanced styles of interpretative practice which are emerging in the wake of new historicism and cultural materialism, and which represent a significant shift in critical approach and focus.

About this title

About the Author

Philippa Berry is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King's College, Cambridge.

Margaret Tudeau-Clayton teaches English at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719064643
• ISBN 13: 9780719064647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Berry Philippa, Tudeau-Clayton Margaret