[lbo-talk] Narnia

[C. G. Estabrook]

His book on (roughly) the pre-modern world view, The Discarded
Image (inaugural lectures at Cambridge as I recall), is little
short of brilliant.  I've insisted that graduate students
beginning Renaissance/Reformation studies start with it.  It
goes a good towards saving them from what a quite different
historian called "the enormous condescension of posterity."  --CGE

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>Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:22:27 -0600
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Narnia  
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>You might try his essay on Addison. (I disagree sharply with
some things
>in it, but it expresses one possible perspective very well.)
>Incidentally, though I've never read an account of it, I
understand from
>secondhand sources that he was very into spanking (whether as
spanker or
>spankee or both I don't remember). Also his _Allegory of
Love_, which I
>have never read either as a whole, but if I remember
correctly his
>history of "romantic love" is essentially the same as the
history Engels
>gives. His book on Milton is enraging but still enjoyable.
>
>Carrol
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