The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture

The boundaries separating Literary Studies from other kinds of humanistic inquiry aremore permeable now than at any moment since the Enlightenment, when disciplinary categories began to acquire their modern definition. The Forms of Renaissance Thought celebrates scholarship at these frontiers. The contributors address works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the textured world of their origins and to a modern scholarly culture that turns tothe early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. In this way, the volume charts the most important intellectual developments that have emerged in the years since a new interest in the cultural and ideological features of the early modern imagination itself led to a rebirth of the Renaissance.