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Cultural Reformations - Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Paperback)
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Cultural Reformations - Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (Paperback)
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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