What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in
Renaissance literary studies today, after theory and the new
historicism? The essays collected here address this question from a
variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness
within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Essays
by Paul Alpers, Douglas Bruster, Stephen Cohen, Heather Dubrow, William
Flesch, Joseph Loewenstein, Elizabeth Harris Sagaser, and Mark Womack,
together with an introduction of Mark David Rasmussen and an afterword
by Richard Strier.