Download or read book The Rest is Silence written by Robert N. Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analytical and personal, this book appeals to its readers' emotions even as it engages their critical intelligence. It also breathes new life into some of the older, but still crucial, conventions of literary history."--Ronald Levao, author of Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions "Loaded with fresh and sometimes startling insights, and it is bracingly skeptical of reigning New Historicist certainties about the hegemonic Christianity of the English Renaissance."--Christopher Hodgkins, George Herbert Journal