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Book SynopsisThis book takes an interdiscplinary approach to the many different places of early modern criticism. It argues polemically for the necessity of looking afresh at the scope of criticism, and at what happens on its margins; and for interrogating our own critical practices and disciplinary methods by investigating their history.
Trade ReviewThis wideranging collection enriches and extends our understanding of criticism: ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary. * Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University, Comptes Rendus *
It is essential reading, and it will shape the field for scholars working on the history of criticism for years to come. * Fraser McIlwraith, University College London *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Placing Early Modern Criticism 1: Chris Stamatakis: 'The restful place': Criticism in Early Tudor Poetry 2: Katie Chenoweth: The Corrector as Critic: Jacques Peletier Du Mans 3: Francesco Lucioli: Popular Rewritings of the Orlando Furioso as Forms of Criticism 4: Rowan Cerys Tomlinson: 'Ce rond de sciences [...] nommé Encyclopédie': The Circle of Learning in Renaissance Poetics 5: Gavin Alexander: Grammar, Prosody, and the Place of Accent in Elizabethan Criticism 6: Lorna Hutson: The Play in the Mind's Eye 7: Michael Hetherington: Places of Form in Early Modern Poetics: Art, Mind, and Voice 8: Rodrigo Cacho Casal: Writing in the New World: Spanish American Poetics and the Literary Canon 9: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann: 'Crittickize uppon the smallest word': Anne Southwell and the Place of Gender in Early Modern Criticism 10: Stijn Bussels: The Wondrous Town Hall of Amsterdam: Laudatory Poems on the Impact of Art and Architecture 11: Emma Gilby: Présence d'esprit in Action in Seventeenth-Century France: Salon Poetry and the Lettres provinciales 12: Micha Lazarus: Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus 13: Thijs Weststeijn: Painting as 'Reall Performance' in Rembrandt's Studio 14: Sophie Read: Dryden's Debts: Criticism, Commerce, and the Value of Wit 15: Alexander Marr: Locus genii: Placing Genius in Roger de Piles's Criticism
