| Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture Contributor(s): Shuger, Debora Kuller (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802080472 ISBN-13: 9780802080479 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 Annotation: When Attempting to Globally Divide Ideas Into orthodox and subversive, it is not always clear what precisely is subversive to the dominant ideology and vice versa. Going against recent trends in Renaissance scholarship, Deborah Shuger examines orthodox methods of thought in the English Renaissance, finding that 'orthodox' dominant thought was remarkably non-uniform. Shuger's approach re-examines and legitimizes the investigation of the connections between religion and literature presages a trend in scholarship that is presently growing in popularity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 942 |
| Series: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Texts |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.02" W x 9.01" (0.96 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When attempting to globally divide ideas into orthodox and subversive categories, it is not always clear what precisely is subversive to the dominant ideology and vice versa. Going against recent trends in English Renaissance studies, Deborah Shuger examines orthodox, rather than subversive, methods of thought in the English Renaissance. Instead of finding a monolithic, unified body of thought, she reveals a remarkably non-uniform 'orthodox' ideology containing a wide range of views. Shuger's approach also re-examines and re-legitimizes the investigation of the connections between religion and literature. First published in 1990, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance presaged an expanding and progressively more popular mode of inquiry in English Renaissance scholarship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shuger, Debora Kuller: - Debora Kuller Shuger teaches in the Faculty of English at UCLA, and is also a member of UCLA's Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies. |
