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The Forms of
Renaissance Thought
New Essays in Literature and Culture
Edited by
Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack and
Sean Keilen
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Also available by Leonard Barkan
SATYR SQUARE: A Year, A Life in Rome
UNEARTHING THE PAST: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of
Renaissance Culture
TRANSUMING PASSION: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism
THE GODS MADE FLESH: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism
NATURE’S WORK OF ART: The Human Body as Image of the World
Also available by Bradin Cormack
A POWER TO DO JUSTICE: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of
Common Law, 1509–1625
Also available by Sean Keilen
VULGAR ELOQUENCE: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature
SHAKESPEARE: The plex (editor with el)
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The Forms of Renaissance
Thought
New Essays in Literature and Culture
Edited by
Leonard Barkan
Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor parative Literature
Princeton University
Bradin Cormack
Associate Professor of English
University of Chicago, USA
Sean Keilen
Associate Professor of English
The College of William and Mary, USA
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