Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing, 1500-1650

Edited by Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy

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March, 2010
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3873-4
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

Renaissance Transformations is a distinctive collection original essays exploring the dynamic cultural, intellectual, and social processes that shaped literary writing and its world between 1500 and 1650. Acutely attentive to the complexities of confronting the past, twelve leading scholars of the Renaissance engage with the interactions among texts, material culture, ideas, and literary form.

Divided into three parts: making writing, shaping communities, and embodying change, the volume demonstrates the "making" of Renaissance writing, incorporating matters of authorship, originality, circulation, and the conception of a "text." Drawing on ideas about process and provisionality, the world of the Renaissance is shown to be protean rather than fixed.

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

About the Author

Margaret Healy is senior lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues, and Politics and of Shakespeare's "Richard II" in the series, Writers and Their Work .Thomas Healy is professor of Renaissance studies and director of Graduate Studies at Birkback College, University of London. He coedited Litature and the English Civil War .

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