Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity

by William Kuskin

Book Overview

In Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity, William Kuskin asks us to reconsider the relationship between literary form and historical period. As Kuskin observes, most current literary histories of medieval and early modern English literature hew to period, presenting the Middle Ages and modernity as discrete, separated by a heterodox and unstable fifteenth century. In contrast, the major writers of the sixteenth century--Philip...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268033250
• ISBN13: 9780268033255
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"