Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-SmithDominic Baker-Smith has been a leading international authority on humanism for more than four decades, specializing in the works of Erasmus and Thomas More. The present collection of essays by colleagues throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States examines humanism in both its historic sixteenth-century meanings and applications and the humanist tradition in our own time, drawing on his work and that of scholars who have followed him. Contributors include Andrew Weiner, Elizabeth McCutcheon, and Germaine Warkentin. Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ton Hoenselaars is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utrecht. |
Contents
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Humanism Cultural Criticism and the Possibility of a Past | 54 |
Humanism or Humanisms? | 75 |
Teachers of Careful Reading | 90 |
Christian Humanism in John Hollands Court of Venus | 108 |
A Paradoxical Encomium by Hendrik Laurensz Spiegel 15491612 | 126 |
Manuscripts and Their Omissions and the Provenance of the Earliest Translation by Constantijn Huygens 1633 | 135 |
Sidneys Critique of Humanism in the New Arcadia | 154 |
Bacons Spenser | 209 |
The Second Earl of Leicester 15951677 and His Commonplace Books 163060 | 229 |
Making World War with Literature | 254 |
E W M M Robson Review | 269 |
The Harmonies of Thomas Whythorne and Rose Tremain | 290 |
Dominic BakerSmith A Bibliography | 311 |
Contributors | 318 |
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