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Author: Shannon McHugh ,
Anna Wainwright ,
Amedeo Quondam ,
Virginia Cox
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9781644531884
ISBN 10: 1644531887
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 21 September 2020
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The essays in this collection aim at revisiting and problematizing in an interdisciplinary context the output of the Counter-Reformation period. As the brilliant contribution by Virginia Cox argues, the time has come to reevaluate the output of both men and women of the period, and to make room for the highly forgotten religious production. The other essays in the book maintain that it is time to stop judging the period as one of cultural involution. Instead we should start seeing it as one of creative innovation, a period in which the response to the Church’s desire for purging sensuality and licentiousness fostered the rewriting of various genres into more spiritual venues.
The essays in this collection aim at revisiting and problematizing in an interdisciplinary context the output of the Counter-Reformation period. As the brilliant contribution by Virginia Cox argues, the time has come to reevaluate the output of both men and women of the period, and to make room for the highly forgotten religious production. The other essays in the book maintain that it is time to stop judging the period as one of cultural involution. Instead we should start seeing it as one of creative innovation, a period in which the response to the Church's desire for purging sensuality and licentiousness fostered the rewriting of various genres into more spiritual venues.
The essays in this collection aim at revisiting and problematizing in an interdisciplinary context the output of the Counter-Reformation period. As the brilliant contribution by Virginia Cox argues, the time has come to reevaluate the output of both men and women of the period, and to make room for the highly forgotten religious production. The other essays in the book maintain that it is time to stop judging the period as one of cultural involution. Instead we should start seeing it as one of creative innovation, a period in which the response to the Church's desire for purging sensuality and licentiousness fostered the rewriting of various genres into more spiritual venues. --Valeria Finucci, Duke University, author of The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine
Author Information
Shannon McHugh is Assistant Professor of Italian and French at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Anna Wainwright is Assistant Professor of Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
