Renaissance Papers 2021: 26 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 164014143X ISBN 13: 9781640141438

Publisher: Camden House, 2022

Synopsis

Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The present volume opens with an essay on early modern chess, arguing that it covertly upheld an Aristotelian concept of virtue against the destabilizing ethical views of writers such as Machiavelli. This provocative opening is followed by iconoclastic discussions of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Wroth's Urania, and Spenser's Fairie Queen. The next essay investigates the mystery surrounding editorship of the 1571 printing of The Mirror for Magistrates. The essays then pivot into the exotic world of Hermetic "statue magic" in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and the even more exotic worlds of alchemy, Aztec war gods, and conversion in sixteenth-century Mexico. Two further essays remain in the New World, the first examining the representational connections between the twelve Caesars and the twelve Inca kings, the second taking stock of Thomas Harriot's contribution to the understanding of Amerindian languages. The penultimate essay looks at Holbein's depiction of Henry VIII's ailing body, and the volume concludes with a complex analysis of guilt and shame in Molière's L'École des Femmes. Contributors: Jean Marie Christensen, William Coulter, Christopher Crosbie, Shepherd Aaron Ellis, Scott Lucas, Fernando Martinez-Periset, Timothy Pyles, Rachel Roberts, Jesse Russell, Janet Stephens, Weiao Xing. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.

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About the Authors

JAMES PEARCE is Director of Graduate Studies in English at North Carolina Central University.

WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University.

WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.

Edition details

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164014143X
• ISBN 13: 9781640141438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Pearce Jim, Risvold Professor Ward J., Given Professor William