Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts

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Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the

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" ... a model of scholarship and literary grace."--John Mulryan, Cithara "Without question, this book is stimulating in its approach and subject matter, and I strongly recommend it for the libraries of interdisciplinarian and Renaissance enthusiasts and scholars."--Richard Studing, Seventeenth-Century News