Censorship and Cultural Sensibility The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England Debora Shuger "May be the year's most erudite book. . . . A major scholarly achievement, since it bears on the work so many now do."--Studies in English Literature "Scrupulously researched, carefully written, argued, and developed, this is one of those books for which it is hard to imagine a mortal author."--Patrick Cheney, Studies in English Literature "This is a major work. Shuger deals with the rules of appropriate language use in early modern Europe, making an argument about censorship in...
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England Debora Shuger "May be the year's most erudite book. . . . A maj...
First published in 1998 by the University of California Press, "The Renaissance Bible" skillfully navigates the immense but neglected materials spanning the gap between medieval biblical scholarship and the rise of Higher Criticism. Debora Kuller Shuger powerfully demonstrates the disciplinary fusion of Renaissance biblical scholarship in which the Bible remained the primary locus for cultural, anthropological, and psychological reflection against modern historians' penchant for bracketing all things religious when reimagining the Renaissance world. Despite the considerable ground she...
First published in 1998 by the University of California Press, "The Renaissance Bible" skillfully navigates the immense but neglected materials spa...
"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a Christian aesthetic out of the Classical grand style, showing its development from Isocrates to the sacred rhetorics of the Renaissance. These rhetorics advocate a Christian grand style neither pedantically mimetic nor playfully sophistic, whose models...
"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it wa...
