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Author: Henry S. Turner (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.752kg
ISBN: 9780199287383
ISBN 10: 0199287384
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 23 February 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This is interdisciplinary work of impressive ambition and range, by someone who is arguably one of the most brilliant young scholars in the world working on Renaissance literature Stephen Pumfrey ISIS The best first book of 2006 Studies in English Literature ambitious...fascinating material Elisabeth Dutton, Times Higher Education Supplement ... a dense, rewarding study... Henry Turner presents a compelling picture of the early modern stage finding a metaphor for itself in the practical arts, and consequently developing as a complex system for making knowledge: 'a way of thinking forward about human action through models and artificial inventions'. Sam Thompson, TLS The English Renaissance Stage is a major book by a major critic that will change the ways in which we read the intersections of literature and mathematics in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts without question one of the best pieces of Renaissance scholarship... in a decade... phenomenal ... a real pleasure. Paula Blank, The College of William and Mary Students are able to read short extracts from correspondence, legislation, theoretical and literary material, which substantiate the contexts they have been led to consider...this introduction to early English theatre distils much scholarship and should stimulate further explorations. NTQ, Volume 23/4
Author Information
Henry S. Turner is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught since 2000. He received his BA from Wesleyan University, an MA in Renaissance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University, and a Diplôme Supérieur d'Ètudes Françaises from the Université de Bourgogne. From 1993-94 he taught in the Département d'Anglais at the Université de Nice. At Madison, his primary research and teaching areas are in Renaissance literature and culture and in twentieth-century critical theory. He is affiliated with the Center for European Studies and with the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Madison. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Vilas Foundation, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
