Unrepentant Renaissance

图书信息

作者	Strier, Richard
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226777535
出版时间	2011-01-09
字数	70.6万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physicalThese widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them.?Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed.The Unrepentant Renaissance counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, aiming to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with surprising, worldly, and self-assertive energies. Reviving the perspective of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Strier provides fresh and uninhibited readings of texts by Petrarch, More, Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Montaigne, Descartes, and Milton. Strier's lively argument will stir debate throughout the field of Renaissance studies.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Back to Burckhardt (Plus the Reformations)

PART 1 In Defense of Passion and the Body

1 Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert

2 Against Judgment: Petrarch and Shakespeare at Sonnets

3 Against Morality: From Richard III to Antony and Cleopatra

APPENDIX 1 Shakespearean Seduction

APPENDIX 2 Morality and the Happy Infant: The Case of Macbeth

PART 2 In Defense of Worldliness

4 Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors

APPENDIX Sanctifying the Aristocracy: From Ignatius Loyola to François de Sales (and then to Donne and Herbert)

PART 3 In Defense of Pride

5 Self-Revelation and Self-Satisfaction in Montaigne and Descartes

6 Milton against Humility

APPENDIX“Lordly Command?”

Notes

Index