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Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals): The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature - Softcover

Crewe, Jonathan

 
9781138779280: Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals): The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138779288 ISBN 13: 9781138779280
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism.

Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under ‘suspicion’ as Crewe explores the elements of ‘criminality’ inherent in the powerful interests –personal, institutional, political and cultural – served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it. Revisionary readings of Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham and Shakespeare are linked by a continuing commentary on the history and theoretical claims of Renaissance criticism.

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Jonathan Wiliams

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138779288
ISBN 13 
9781138779280
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192