The Waning Of The Renaissance 1640 1740

Author : John Hoyles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401030083

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The Waning of the Renaissance 1640–1740 by John Hoyles Pdf

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism. And yet if the history of ideas is to be more than a pastime for the student of literature, it must be rooted in the precise art of discrimination. The following chapters attempt to describe and evaluate a particular cultural development by relating the background of ideas to the literary achievement of three writers. It will be sufficient here to out line the nature of the problem, and the method and approach employed. The concept of cultural development implies a recognition of the con nections between ideology and aesthetics. There are at least two ways of exploring such connections. The one, pioneered by Basil Willey, seeks to situate the critical moments of our cultural development in the back ground of ideas, without which the contribution of a particular author cannot be justly evaluated. The danger of such an approach is that the task of discrimination comes to depend over-heavily on extra-literary criteria.

Author : John Hoyles,John Norris,Henry More,Isaac Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:419498023

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The Waning of the Renaissance 1640-1740 by John Hoyles,John Norris,Henry More,Isaac Watts Pdf

Author : William James Bouwsma
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300097174

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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 by William James Bouwsma Pdf

Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob Burckhardt, as the root and foundation of modern culture. But in this brilliant new analysis William Bouwsma rethinks the accepted view, arguing that while the Renaissance had a beginning and, unquestionably, a climax, it also had an ending. Examining the careers of some of the greatest figures of the age--Montaigne, Galileo, Jonson, Descartes, Hooker, Shakespeare, and Cervantes among many others--Bouwsma perceives in their work a growing sense of doubt and anxiety about the modern world. He considers first those features of modern European culture generally associated with the traditional Renaissance, features which reached their climax in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. But even as the movements of the Renaissance gathered strength, simultaneous impulses operated in a contrary direction. Bouwsma identifies a growing concern with personal identity, shifts in the interests of major thinkers, a decline in confidence about the future, and a heightening of anxiety. Exploring the fluctuating and sometimes contradictory atmosphere in which Renaissance artists and thinkers operated, Bouwsma shows how the very liberation from old boundaries and modes of expression that characterized the Renaissance became itself increasingly stifling and destructive. By drawing attention to the waning of the Renaissance culture of freedom and creativity, Bouwsma offers a wholly new and intriguing interpretation of the place of the European Renaissance in modern culture.

Author : John Hoyles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:ne71000020

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The Waning of the Renaissance 1640-1740 by John Hoyles Pdf

Author : William Zunder,Suzanne Trill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315504476

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Writing and the English Renaissance by William Zunder,Suzanne Trill Pdf

Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known - especially women - writers are also examined. Radical writing and popular culture are considered as well. The scope of the study not only extends the parameters for debate in Renaissance studies, but also adopts a radical interdisciplinary approach, bridging the gap between literary, historical, cultural and women's studies, leading to a much fuller picture of life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors discussed are placed in their full historical and literary context, with an extensive selection of original documentation included in the text - for example, from The Book of Common Prayer or the Homilies to contextualize the writing under discussion. This distinctive approach, combined with a detailed chronology of the period and bibliography, embracing both canonical and non-canonical writers, makes this volume a unique reference resource and course reader for Renaissance studies.

Author : D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401132381

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The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin Pdf

The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.

Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349040728

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Images and Ideas in Literature of the English Renaissance by Patrick Grant Pdf

Author : S. Jayne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401585514

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Plato in Renaissance England by S. Jayne Pdf

This book offers a radical reappraisal of the reputation of Plato in England between 1423 and 1603. Using many materials not hitherto available, including evidence of book publishing and book ownership, together with a comprehensive survey of allusions to Plato, the author shows that the English were far less interested in Plato than most historians have thought. Although the English, like the French, knew the `court' Plato as well as the `school' Plato, the English published only two works by Plato during this period, while the French published well over 100 editions, including several of the complete Works. In England allusions to Plato occur more often in prose writers such as Whetstone, Green, and Lodge, than in poets like Spenser and Chapman. Sidney did take his `Stella' from Plato, but most English allusions to Plato were taken not directly from Plato or from Ficino, but from other authors, especially Mornay, Nani-Mirabelli, Ricchieri, Steuco, and Tixier.

Author : Stephen Clucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781402042461

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John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought by Stephen Clucas Pdf

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields – intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies – we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee’s career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee’s activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and render them more historiographically legible.

Author : Daniel Garber,Michael Ayers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521537215

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy by Daniel Garber,Michael Ayers Pdf

Author : Madeleine Forrell Marshall,Janet M. Todd
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813194257

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English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century by Madeleine Forrell Marshall,Janet M. Todd Pdf

Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.

Author : David Fairer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892885

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English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by David Fairer Pdf

In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Author : Gary Day,Jack Lynch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1524 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444330205

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The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set by Gary Day,Jack Lynch Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com

Author : Kenneth Sheppard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004288164

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Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720 by Kenneth Sheppard Pdf

Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England traces the emergence and transformation of a distinct apologetic discourse called the confutation of atheism.

Author : Graham Beynon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567670151

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Isaac Watts by Graham Beynon Pdf

Isaac Watts was an important but relatively unexamined figure and this volume offers a description of his theology, specifically identifying his position on reason and passion as foundational. The book shows how Watts modified a Puritan inherence on both topics in the light of the thought of his day. In particular there is an examination of how he both took on board and reacted against aspects of Enlightenment and sentimentalist thought. Watts' position on these foundational issued of reason and passion are then shown to lie behind his more practical works to revive the church. Graham Beynon examines the motivation for Watts' work in writing hymns, and the way in which he wrote them; and discusses his preaching and prayer. In each of these practical topics Watts's position is compared to earlier Puritans to show the difference his thinking on reason and passion makes in practice. Isaac Watts is shown to have a coherent position on the foundational issues of reason and passion which drove his view of revival of religion.