Recursive Origins Writing At The Transition To Modernity

In Recursive Origins: Writing At The Transition To Modernity, William Kuskin Asks Us To Reconsider The Relationship Between Literary Form And Historical Period. As Kuskin Observes, Most Current Literary Histories Of Medieval And Early Modern English Literature Hew To Period, Presenting The Middle Ages And Modernity As Discrete, Separated By A Heterodox And Unstable Fifteenth Century. In Contrast, The Major Writers Of The Sixteenth Centuryphilip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, The Holinshed Syndicate, And Their Editorswere Intense Readers Of The Fifteenth Century And Consciously Looked Back To Its History And Poetry As They Shaped Their Own.