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Cultural Reformations - Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Hardcover)
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Cultural Reformations - Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford 21st Century Approaches to Literature
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The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to
Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge
rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge
scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;
instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers
to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.
The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been
between the Medieval and the Early Modern, not least because the
cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally
powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and
freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and
scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very
possibility of persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of
these narratives (and more) is motivated by positing a powerful
break around 1500.
None of the claims for a profound historical and cultural break at
the turn of the fifteenth into the sixteenth centuries is
negligible. The very habit of working within those periodic bounds
(either Medieval or Early Modern) tends, however, simultaneously to
affirm and to ignore the rupture. It affirms the rupture by staying
within standard periodic bounds, but it ignores it by never
examining the rupture itself. The moment of profound change is
either, for medievalists, just over an unexplored horizon; or, for
Early Modernists, a zero point behind which more penetrating
examination is unnecessary. That situation is now rapidly changing.
Scholars are building bridges that link previously insular areas.
Both periods are starting to look different in dialogue with each
other.
The change underway has yet to find collected voices behind it.
Cultural Reformations volume aims to provide those voices. It will
give focus, authority, and drive to a new area.
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