Author: Robert E. Stillman
Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney’s “Defence of Poesy”, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain.

Recognizing Dr. Robert Stillman for his recently published book Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism.

Robert Stillman, professor of English, had his most recent book Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism published by Ashgate.