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November 20, 2007
Ton Hoenselaars and Arthur F. Kinney, PhD'63, editors
Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-Smith, University of Delaware Press, 2005.
The book: Dominic Baker-Smith has been a leading international authority on humanism for more than four decades, specializing in the works of Erasmus and Thomas More. This collection of essays by colleagues throughout Europe, Canada and the United States examines humanism in both its historic 16th century meanings and applications and the humanist tradition in our own time, drawing on Baker-Smith's work and that of scholars who have followed him. Contributors include Andrew Weiner, Elizabeth McCutcheon, and Germaine Warkentin.
The author: Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books as well as founding editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance. Besides the early modern period, he has published books on William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Parker.
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM