The Places of Early Modern Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780198834687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Gavin Alexander; Emma Gilby; Alexander Marr

Recenzje

It is essential reading, and it will shape the field for scholars working on the history of criticism for years to come.

O autorze

Gavin Alexander is Reader in Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. His most recent project is an edition of The Model of Poesy by William Scott (CUP, 2013). Other publications include Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640 (OUP, 2006) and Renaissance Figures of Speech (CUP, 2007), co-edited with Sylvia Adamson and Katrin Ettenhuber, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on literary and musicological topics. He is currently working on a book on English Renaissance poets and music, and a project on lyric poetry and poetics. Emma Gilby is Reader in Early Modern French Literature and Thought at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include Descartes's Fictions: Reading Philosophy with Poetics (OUP, 2019) and Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (MHRA [Legenda], 2006), as well as various co-edited volumes and articles on the literary and intellectual history of the early modern period. Much of her research has focused on poetic theory and its connections to the rhetoric, philosophy and theology of seventeenth-century France. Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He recently published, with R. Garrod, J.R. Marcaida, and R. Oosterhoff, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). His study of Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens's Spirit: from Ingenuity to Genius is forthcoming from Reaktion Books.