Renaissance World-Alientaion

Author / Editor
Howard, Donald.

Title
Renaissance World-Alientaion

Published
Robert S. Kinsman, ed. The Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 47-76.

Description
Proposes that "purposeful" alienation that was characteristic of humanist thinking between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries: contempt for the world that belies an underlying fascination with it. Assesses the presence of the sentiment in several literary and philosophical works, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the ending of TC.

Contributor
Kinsman, Robert S., ed.

Alternative Title
Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde