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Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture

By Debora Kuller Shuger (NHC Fellow, 1987–88)

English Renaissance; English History; Philosophy; Politics; Intellectual History

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990

From the publisher’s description:

When attempting to globally divide ideas into orthodox and subversive categories, it is not always clear what precisely is subversive to the dominant ideology and vice versa. Going against recent trends in English Renaissance studies, Deborah Shuger examines orthodox, rather than subversive, methods of thought in the English Renaissance. Instead of finding a monolithic, unified body of thought, she reveals a remarkably non-uniform 'orthodox' ideology containing a wide range of views. Shuger's approach also re-examines and re-legitimizes the investigation of the connections between religion and literature. First published in 1990, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance presaged an expanding and progressively more popular mode of inquiry in English Renaissance scholarship.

Subjects
History / Religion / English Renaissance / English History / Philosophy / Politics / Intellectual History /

Shuger, Debora Kuller (NHC Fellow, 1987–88). Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetica. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.