Reading Renaissance Ethics

Edited by Marshall Grossman.

Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now. Part 1: 1. Introduction: Reading Renaissance Ethics Part 2: The Ethics of Renaissance Forms 2. Gender, Justice and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5 3. The Ethics of Posing: Visual Epideixis in Some 17th Century Dutch Group Portraits 4. Textual Ethics: Reading Transference and Translation: Milton and Tragedy 5. Aesthetics as Critique in Samson Agonistes Part 3: Historicizing Renaissance Ethics 6. The Ethics of Renaissance Bible Translation 7. Eating Montaigne 8. Marvell's 'Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus' and the Ethics of Political Violence Part 4: Philosophy and Renaissance Ethics 9. The Ethics of Inspiration 10. Shakespeare Against Morality 11. The Skeptical Ethics of John Donne: The Case of Ignatius his Conclave 12. Winning the Initiative Part 5: Assessments 13. Ethics or Politics? An Exchange Passing through the Areopagitica 14. Reading Reading Renaissance Ethics: 'with modesty enough'. 291 Seiten mit Abb., broschiert (Taylor & Francis/Routledge 2007) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear