Introduction: Hermeneutics and ideology

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-213

  Aers, David ^a   Beckwith, Sarah ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949946097     PISSN: 10829636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10829636-33-2-211     Document Type: Editorial

References (4)

1. Jeffrey Knapp, preface to Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), xi. At a conference on religion and literature at the University of Michigan in 2000, it was striking how many participants felt obliged to make counterconfessions against the contagion of their material: "I am not a Christian, but. . . ."
2. Quentin Skinner, "A Reply to My Critics," in Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, ed. James Tully (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988), 246. Toril Moi has recently trenchantly illuminated the "muddle" in what counts as political in contemporary theory and criticism in her excellent Cavellian essay, "Meaning What We Say: The 'Politics of Theory' and the Responsibility of Intellectuals," forthcoming in The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Emily Grosholz. We thank Toril for allowing us to see a copy of this essay in advance of publication.
3. Skinner, "Meaning and Understanding," in Meaning and Context, 67.
4. Peter Lake and Michael Questier, "Puritans, Papists, and the 'Public Sphere' in Early Modern England: The Edmund Campion Affair in Context," Journal of Modern History 72 (2000): 1.