The unrepentant Renaissance : from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strier, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Temas:
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Milton, John > 1608-1674
Petrarca, Francesco > 1304-1374
Shakespeare, William > 1564-1616
1450-1700
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
English literature > Early modern
European literature > Renaissance
Literatur
Renaissance
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Back to Burckhardt (plus the reformations)
  • In defense of passion and the body
  • Against the rule of reason: praise of passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert
  • Against judgment: Petrarch and Shakespeare at sonnets
  • Against morality: from Richard III to Antony and Cleopatra
  • Appendix 1: Shakespearean seduction
  • Appendix 2: morality and the happy infant: the case of Macbeth
  • In defense of worldliness
  • Sanctifying the bourgeoisie: the cultural work of the comedy of errors
  • Appendix: sanctifying the aristocracy: from Ignatius Loyola to François de Sales (and then to Donne and Herbert)
  • In defense of pride
  • Self-revelation and self-satisfaction in Montaigne and Descartes
  • Milton against humility
  • Appendix: "lordly command?"

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