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About the Author
James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He was previously Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge (1999-2003). He is a Life Fellow of Fellow of Girton College and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Longman, 1990); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Reform and Cultural Revolution, being Volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002) (winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, 2007); and Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007) (winner of the Silver Medal, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, religion category).
Reviews
beautifully written and illustrated ... This is a splendid book from which anyone trained in medieval or early modern literature, art history, religious studies, theology, or philosophy, could certainly profit ... Simpson's brilliant and provocative book actually becomes an insight into a profound "absence" in Anglo- American modern culture. * Brenda Deen Schildgen, The Medieval Review *
what makes this book worth reading is its focus on ... the "exhaustion" of the ceaseless struggle to escape the image since the Protestant Reformation. ... What is compelling about all of this is that even though one might take issue, as a specialist, with certain of Simpson's readings of history or historical texts and objects, it reminds us to be vigilant against our own scholarly idols and our tendency to view the iconoclastic impulse as Other. * Alexa Sand, The Sixteenth Century Journal *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199591657
Author James Simpson
Format Hardback
Page Count 238
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 398g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm * 18mm