Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical andformal criticism <strong>Reading Renaissance Ethics</strong> assesses the ethical perf... » 

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical andformal criticism Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performanceof renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. Exploringthe nature and mechanics of cultural agency the book explains with greaterclarity just what is at stake when canonformation aesthetic evaluation andcurricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question ofwhat to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we readand when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sortsof events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how thisdiffers from the way we read and teach them now. «