Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books
Yale University Press How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
Book SynopsisA masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan EnglandTrade Review“Subtle and insightful readings . . . The high point of Mr. Lake’s book is his masterly analysis of Henry V. . . . Anyone interested in Shakespeare should make the effort to read this book. Even someone intimately familiar with the plays will discover much that is new, from details of historical background to interpretations of specific passages.”—Paul A. Cantor, Wall Street Journal“In this huge chronologically ordered study, Peter Lake coalesces the English Histories with Shakespeare’s Roman plays to argue that the history plays reflect a distinct trace left by the real political manoeuvrings of the period, and provides a wealth of historical information to underpin his case.”—Rene Weis, BBC History“Well deserving of a space on readers’ shelves” —Marisa R. Cull, American Historical Review“[T]he scholarship on display is admirable, and the arguments clear and well-constructed. Those with an interest in the political dynamics which drove Shakespeare to shape his plays as he did, and who wonder just how he managed to balance the expression on stage of radical ideas about kingship, the rule of law and the will of the people with living in the uncertain and often violent political reality of late Elizabethan England...will find this book deeply thought-provoking.”—Paul Flux, Albion Magazine'An immensely learned and deeply insightful monograph disguised as a page-turner. Lake offers the most lucid and believable account to date of, as the title promises, how Shakespeare put politics on the stage. Required reading not only for all Shakespeareans but for anyone interested in how literature speaks to and is shaped by its historical moment.' - Debora Shuger, author of Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England 'Even as Shakespeare’s histories illuminate his times, his times cast light upon those plays. Peter Lake, whose grasp of the Elizabethan political scene is exceptional, illuminates both Shakespeare’s world and works. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this a deeply engaging and comprehensive study.'—James Shapiro, author of The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606'Peter Lake has written an astonishing book, even for Peter Lake. Learned, lively, provocative and often surprising, How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage is a brilliant account of Elizabethan politics and Shakespeare’s extraordinary mediation of them. It is a wonderfully sensitive and supple work of literary criticism as well as a deeply engaged account of how Shakespeare’s England (which only retrospectively became “his”) thought about the most urgent political issues of the day.' - David Scott Kastan, author of A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion
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The University of Michigan Press Gaming the Stage
Book SynopsisRich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.Trade ReviewA smart, invigorating intervention into early modern theatre history and historiography. Not only specialists in Renaissance Drama, but also cultural historians, game and gaming scholars, and specialists in performance studies will find this book accessible and engaging. Bloom moves masterfully across scholarly registers, showing how theatre remembers and reconstitutes the chanciness of everyday life."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago""Bloom's central argument concerns the ways the strategies of playing different kinds of games are worked into the action of early modern drama, and how the affectual and kinesthetic structure of playing/watching these games provides an index into the plays' potential theatrical experience . . . a deeply researched, well-conceived, thoroughly engrossing book."" - W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
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University of California Press Mans Estate
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
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University of California Press The BalladDrama of Medieval Japan
Book SynopsisThe Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan delves into the kowaka, a ballad-drama genre that flourished during Japan's tumultuous Medieval Era, a period shaped by samurai culture and the heroic values of loyalty and chivalry. Emerging in the 16th century, kowaka captured the martial exploits and epic struggles of the early Medieval Era, including the famed Genji-Heike conflict. Despite its initial popularity among samurai, the kowaka faded into obscurity during the Edo Period, only to be rediscovered in modern times. This study aims to reconstruct the history, artistry, and literary significance of kowaka, drawing on Japanese scholarship, field observations in Kyushu's Oe Village (where the tradition endures), and textual analysis. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines kowaka as a performing art, detailing its historical development, influences, and stylistic elements while highlighting the author's original fieldwork and critiques of prior research. The second part focuses
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAplphabetical List of Authors and Works. Introduction. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations and Short Titles. Chronological Table of Dates. Map. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400). The Parliament of Fowls. From Troilus and Criseyde. From The Canterbury Tales. Minor Poems. 2. William Langland (1375-1380). From The Vision of Piers Plowman (c-text). 3. The Letters of John Ball (1381). 4. John Trevisa (1402). 5. The Wycliffite Bible (1380-1400). 6. 'The Gawain-Poet' (1390). From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. From Patience. 7. John Gower 91408). From Confessio Amantis. 8. Mandeville's Travels (1390-1400). 9. The Cloud of Unknowing (1390-1400). 10. Julian of Norwich (1342-14180. From The Revelations of Divine Love. 11. The Alliterative Morte Arthure. 12. William Thorpe. From The Testimony of William Thorpe. 13. Nicholas Love (1410). 14. Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426). From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve. From The Regement of Princes. From 'The Series'. 15. John Lydgate (1371-1449). From The Troy-Book. From The Siege of Thebes. From The Life of Our Lady. From The Dance Macabre. From The Fall of Princes. Letter to Gloucester. From The Testament of Dan John Lydgate. 16. Maragret Kempe (1373-1440). From The Book of Margery Kempe. 17. Charles of Orleans 91394-1465). 18. Anonymous Songs and Short Poems, Religious, Comic and Amatory. 19. Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript. 20. Popular Ballads. 21. Reginald Pecock (1392/5- 1460). 22. The Paston Letters. 23. Sir John Fortescue (1395-1477). From The Governance of England. 24. Sir Thomas Malory (1410-1471). From Morte D'Arthur. 25. William Caxton (1422-14920. 26. Robert Henryson (1430-1505). The Testament of Cresseid. From The Fables. 27. William Dunbar (1456-15150. Meditation in Winter. Christ in Triumph. From The Golden Targe. From The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow. 28. Gavin Dougles (1475-1522). From The Aeneid-Translation. 29. Stephen Hawes (1521). From The Pastime of Pleasure. 30. John Skelton (1460-1529). 31. The First English Life of Henry V (1513). 32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535). From The History of King Richard III. From Utopia. From A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation. 33. Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). From The Book Named the Governor. 34. William Tyndale (1494-1536). From The Prologue to the New Testament. From The New Testament. From The Obedience of a Christian Man. 35. Simon Fish (1500-1531). 36. William Roper (1496-1577). 37. Sir David Lindsay (1486-1555). From Squire Meldrum. 38. George Cavendish (1499-1562). From The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey. From Metrical Visions. 39. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). 40. John Leland (1506-15520. 41. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547). 42. High Latimer (1491-1555). From The 'Sermon of the Plougher'. 43. Roger Ascham (1515-1568). From Toxophilus, or, The School of Shooting. From The Schoolmaster. 44. A Mirror fro Magistrates (1563). 45. John Foxe (1517-1587). From The Acts and Monumnets of Martyrs. 46. George Gascoigne (1539-1578). From The Steel Glass. From The Spoil of ANtwerp. 47. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). Textual Variants. Glossary of Common Hard Words. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book Synopsis* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture. * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya interest. * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .Trade Review"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers." "Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger." Medium AevumTable of ContentsAlphabetical List of Authors and Works xiii Introduction xv Acknowledgements xix List of Abbreviations and Short Titles xx Chronological Table of Dates xxiii Map xxvi Geoffrey Chaucer (C.1343–1400) 1 The Parliament Of Fowls 2 From Troilus And Criseyde 20 The wooing of Criseyde (from Book II) 21 The winning of Criseyde (from Book III) 44 The loss of Criseyde (from Book V) 69 The epilogue (from Book V) 76 From The Canterbury Tales 79 The General Prologue 80 The Miller’s Prologue and Tale 99 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 116 The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale 143 The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale 164 Minor Poems Adam Scriveyn 177 Truth 177 The Envoy to Scogan 178 The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse 180 William Langland (Fl. 1375–1380) 182 From The Vision Of Piers Plowman (C-Text) The Field Full of Folk (Prologue) 182 Meed at Westminster (from Passus III) 187 Will’s ‘apologia pro vita sua’ (from Passus V) 189 The Confession of the People (from Passus VI) 192 Piers Plowman and the Search for Saint Truth (from Passus VII) 196 The Ploughing of the Half-Acre (from Passus VIII) 200 The Pardon sent from Truth (from Passus IX) 207 The Beginning of the Search for Dowel (from Passus X) 213 The Crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell (from Passus XX) 214 The Coming of Antichrist (from Passus XXII) 222 The Letters Of John Ball (1381) 227 John Trevisa (D. 1402) 230 From His Translation Of Higden’s Polychronicon The languages of Britain 230 The Wycliffite Bible (c.1380–c.1400) 232 The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 232 The nature of charity (1 Cor. 13) 232 ‘The Gawain-Poet’ (Fl. 1390) 234 From Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Fits Three And Four 235 From Patience Jonah And The Whale 266 John Gower (D. 1408) 273 From Confessio Amantis The lover’s business (from Book IV) 273 The Tale of Tereus and Procne (from Book V) 276 Mandeville’s Travels (C.1390–1400) 287 The holy places west of Jerusalem (chap. 11) 287 The people of Dundeya (chap. 22) 288 The approach to the land of Prester John (chap. 30) 289 The fools of despair (chap. 31) 289 The Brahmins (chap. 32) 290 The Earthly Paradise (chap. 33) 291 The Cloud Of Unknowing (c.1390–1400) 292 The plan of campaign (chap. 3) 292 The cloud of unknowing and the cloud of forgetting (chaps 4–7) 293 False contemplatives (chap. 53) 295 Nowhere is everywhere (chap. 68) 296 Julian (Juliana) Of Norwich (1342–C.1418) 297 From The Revelations Of Divine Love (Longer Version) The bodily sickness and the first revelation (chaps 3–4) 297 The second revelation (chap. 10) 299 The seventh revelation (chap. 15) 300 The eighth revelation (chap. 16) 301 The thirteenth revelation (chap. 27): Sin is behovely 301 Jesus as Mother (chap. 60) 302 The Alliterative Morte Arthure 304 Arthur’s fight with the giant of St Michael’s mount 304 William Thorpe (Fl. 1407) 308 From The Testimony Of William Thorpe 308 Nicholas Love (Fl. 1410) 313 From The Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ (1410) The purpose of this work (chap. 40) 313 The scourging (chap. 41) 314 The crucifixion (chap. 43) 315 The seven last words from the Cross (chap. 44) 317 Thomas Hoccleve (1368–1426) 319 From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve Living it up in London 319 From The Regement Of Princes The sleepless night and meeting with the old man 322 Hoccleve’s troubles 327 Hoccleve’s hard life as a scribe 329 Chaucer is dead 331 A way to remember Chaucer 333 From The ‘Series’ From The Complaint of Hoccleve 334 From Dialogue with a Friend 339 John Lydgate (1371–1449) 343 From The Troy-Book Lamentation upon the fall of Troy (from Book IV) 344 From The Siege Of Thebes Prologue 345 From The Life Of Our Lady The Commendation of Our Lady at the Nativity (from Book III) 350 From The Dance Macabre 353 From The Fall Of Princes The letter of Canace to her brother 362 Exclamation on the death of Cyrus 365 Letter To Gloucester 366 From The Testament Of Dan John Lydgate 367 Margery Kempe (C.1373–C.1440) 369 From The Book Of Margery Kempe Her first childbirth, and first vision of Christ (chap. 1) 369 Her contract with her husband, 23 June 1413, on the road to Bridlington (chap. 11) 371 Among the monks at Canterbury (chap. 13) 372 Wedded to the Godhead (chap. 36) 373 Before the archbishop of York (chap. 52) 374 Her husband’s last illness (chap. 76) 376 Charles Of Orleans (1394–1465) 378 Ballade 48: ‘To longe, for shame’ 378 Ballade 70: ‘In the forest of Noyous Hevynes’ 379 Ballade 72: ‘Whan fresshe Phebus’ 380 Roundel 35: ‘Take, take this cosse’ (with the text of Charles’s French original) 381 Roundel 37: ‘I prayse nothing’ 381 Roundel 57: ‘My gostly fadir’ 382 Charles meets his new lady (5219–5351) 382 Ballade 96: ‘Syn hit is so we nedis must depart’ 385 Anonymous Songs And Short Poems, Religious, Comic And Amatory 387 ‘Adam lay ibowndyn’ 387 ‘I syng of a mayden’ 387 ‘Ther is no rose’ 388 ‘Lully, lulla, thow litel tiny child’ 389 ‘A God and yet a man’ 389 ‘Who cannot wepe come lerne at me’ 390 ‘In a tabernacle of a toure’ 391 The Corpus Christi Carol 393 Christ Triumphant 394 ‘Farewell, this world’ 394 ‘Kyrie, so kyrie’ 395 ‘I have a gentil cok’ 396 ‘I dar not seyn’ 397 ‘Care away for evermore’ 397 The Schoolboy’s Lament 398 Against Blacksmiths 399 ‘Alone walkyng’ 400 ‘Myn hertys joy’ 401 ‘Westren wynde’ 401 Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript 402 1 ‘As in yow restyth my joy and comfort’ 402 2 ‘What-so men seyn’ 402 3 ‘My woofull hert, thus clad in payn’ 403 4 (a) ‘Come home, dere herte, from tarieng’ 404 (b) ‘To you, my joye and my worldly plesaunce’ 404 (c) ‘There may areste me no pleasance’ 405 (d) ‘Welcome be ye, my sovereine’ 405 5 ‘Continuaunce / Of remembraunce’ 405 Popular Ballads 406 Saint Steven 406 The Hunting of the Cheviot 407 Robin Hood and the Monk 413 Reginald Pecock (C.1392/5–C.1460?) 423 From The Repressor Of Overmuch Blaming Of The Clergy Images not a form of idolatry 423 The Paston Letters 425 Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston II 425 Elizabeth Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 427 Margery Brews to John Paston III 427 The same 428 Sir John Fortescue (C.1395–C.1477) 429 From The Governance Of England Jus regale and Jus politicum et regale 429 Sir Thomas Malory (C.1410–1471) 431 From The Morte D’arthur, Book 8, ‘The Moste Pyteuous Tale Of The Morte Arthure Saunz Gwerdon’ The accusation and rescue of Guenevere 432 The vengeance of Sir Gawain 440 The combat of Lancelot and Gawain 449 The last battle and the death of Arthur 452 The death of Guenevere and of Lancelot 459 William Caxton (C.1422–1492) 465 Prologue To Malory’s Morte D’arthur 465 Prologue To Eneydos 467 Robert Henryson (C.1430–C.1505) 469 The Testament Of Cresseid 469 From The Fables 484 The Cock and the Fox 485 The Fox and the Wolf 490 The Wolf and the Wether 495 The Wolf and the Lamb 498 William Dunbar (C.1456–C.1515) 503 Meditation In Winter 503 Christ In Triumph 504 From The Golden Targe 505 From The Treatise Of The Two Married Women And The Widow 508 ‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’ 515 Gavin Douglas (C.1475–1522) 519 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II, chapter 9 520 (with Latin of Aeneid, II.544–58) Book VII, Prologue (1–96) 522 Book XIII, Prologue 524 Stephen Hawes (D. After 1521) 529 From The Pastime Of Pleasure Dedication 529 How Graunde Amour met with Fame 530 The Tower of Doctrine 533 The nature of poetic style 534 Farewell to the world 535 Farewell to his book 535 John Skelton (C.1460–1529) 536 From The Bowge Of Court 536 From The Book Of Philip Sparrow 542 From The Tunning Of Elinor Rumming 556 From Colin Clout 560 From The Garland Of Laurel 565 The First English Life Of Henry V (1513) 571 The prince of Wales presents himself to his father, Henry IV 571 Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) 573 From The History Of King Richard Iii The fall of lord Hastings 573 Shore’s wife 575 The duke of Buckingham has Richard acclaimed king 576 From Utopia 578 Restrictions on travel among the Utopians 579 How the Utopians regard gold 579 How the Utopians wage war 580 The superiority of the Utopian commonwealth 581 From A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation How the Christian prepares himself to die for his faith 583 Sir Thomas Elyot (C.1490–1546) 585 From The Book Named The Governor The importance of beginning Latin early 585 Why gentlemen’s children are seldom properly educated 586 An illustration of the virtue of placability 586 William Tyndale (1494–1536) 588 From The Prologue To The New Testament 588 From The New Testament The parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 589 The nature of love (1 Cor. 13) 589 From The Obedience Of A Christian Man That the scripture ought to be in the English tongue 590 Why they will not have the scripture in English 591 Blind mouths 591 Simon Fish (C.1500–1531) 592 From A Supplication For The Beggars (1529) 592 William Roper (1496–1577) 594 From The Life Of Sir Thomas More The testimony of master Rich 594 Sir David Lindsay (C.1486–1555) 596 From Squire Meldrum Prologue 596 The sea-fight 598 The wooing of the lady of Gleneagles 600 George Cavendish (C.1499–C.1562) 603 From The Life And Death Of Cardinal Wolsey Wolsey’s last journey 603 From Metrical Visions The Complaint of Cardinal Wolsey 605 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) 607 1 ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’ 608 (with Italian of Petrarch, Sonnet 107) 2 ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde’ 609 3 ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’ 609 4 ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’ 609 5 ‘Madame, withouten many wordes’ 610 6 ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’ 610 7 ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’ 611 8 ‘Marvaill no more’ 611 9 ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’ 612 10 ‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’ 613 11 ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’ 614 12 ‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’ 614 13 ‘My lute, awake!’ 614 14 ‘In eternum’ 615 15 ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’ 616 16 ‘To cause accord or to agre’ 617 17 ‘Th’answere that ye made to me, my dere’ 618 18 ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce’ 619 19 ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?’ 619 20 ‘Is it possible?’ 620 21 ‘And wylt thow leve me thus?’ 621 22 ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent’ 621 23 ‘Blame not my lute’ 622 24 ‘What shulde I saye?’ 623 25 ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde’ 624 26 ‘Wyth serving still’ 624 27 ‘I abide and abide and better abide’ 625 28 ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe’ 625 29 ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought’ 626 30 ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray’ 626 31 Satire 1: ‘Myne owne John Poynz’ 626 32 Paraphrase of Ps. 130: De profundis clamavi 629 John Leland (C.1506–1552) 630 From A New Year’s Gift To Henry Viii 630 Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517–1547) 632 1 ‘When ragyng love with extreme payne’ 632 2 ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes’ 633 3 ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene’ 633 4 ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought’ 634 5 ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace’ 634 6 ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before’ 635 7 ‘O happy dames, that may embrace’ 635 8 ‘Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exyle’ 637 9 ‘When Windesor walles sustained my wearied arme’ 638 10 ‘So crewell prison howe could betyde, alas’ 638 11 ‘W. resteth here, that quick could never rest’ 640 12 ‘Th’Assyrans king, in peas with fowle desyre’ 641 13 ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’ 641 From The Aeneid-Translation Book II (ll. 654–729) 642 Hugh Latimer (1491–1555) 644 From The ‘Sermon On The Plougher’ 644 Roger Ascham (1515–1568) 646 From Toxophilus, Or, The School Of Shooting Why he writes in English (from the Preface) 646 The wind on the snow 646 From The Schoolmaster How Italian books and Arthurian romances corrupt the young 647 A Mirror For Magistrates (Second Edition, 1563) 649 From The Induction To The Complaint Of Henry, Duke Of Buckingham, By Thomas Sackville (1536–1608) 649 From The Tragedy Of Lord Hastings, By John Dolman (C.1540–C.1602) 652 John Foxe (1517–1587) 654 From Acts And Monuments Of Martyrs Concerning Simon Fish 654 The behaviour of doctor Ridley and master Latimer at the time of their death (16 October 1555) 655 George Gascoigne (1539–1578) 659 From The Steel Glass Exhortation to knights, squires and gentlemen 659 Pray for ploughmen 660 From The Spoil Of Antwerp The seizing of the town 661 Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 663 January, From The Shepherd’s Calendar 663 Textual Variants 666 Glossary of Common Hard Words 672 Index 676
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chaucer to Spenser
Book SynopsisThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.Table of ContentsPreface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langland's Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.'Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d'Orléans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.
£47.45
Harvard University, Asia Center Li Mengyang the NorthSouth Divide and Literati
Book SynopsisLi Mengyang (1473–1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li’s quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty.
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Princeton University Press Shakespeares Festive Comedy
Book SynopsisRevealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, this book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1961 George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism "Well-considered, subtly thought-out commentaries that move easily between structural analysis of the larger actions and sensitive dissection of local textures ... a first-rate work of impressive imagination."--Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsForeword stephen greenblatt xi Preface xvii Chapter One: Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern 1 Through Release to Clarification 5 Shakespeare's Route to Festive Comedy 10 Chapter Two: holiday custom and entertainment 16 The May Game 19 The Lord of Misrule 25 Aristocratic Entertainments 32 Chapter Three: Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule 39 License and Lese Majesty in Lincolnshire 40 The May Game of Martin Marprelate 56 Chapter Four: Prototypes of Festive Comedy in a Pageant Entertainment: Summer's Last Will and Testament 64 "What can be made of Summer's last will and testament?" 64 Presenting the Mirth of the Occasion 68 Praise of Folly: Bacchus and Falstaff 75 Festive Abuse 82 "Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year" 90 Chapter Five: The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost 98 "lose our oaths to find ourselves" 100 "sport by sport o'erthrown" 105 "a great feast of languages" 107 Wit 112 Putting Witty Folly in Its Place 116 "When ... Then ..."--The Seasonal Songs 128 Chapter Six: May Games and Metamorphoses on a Midsummer Night 135 The Fond Pageant 141 Bringing in Summer to the Bridal 149 Magic as Imagination: The Ironic Wit 159 Moonlight and Moonshine: The Ironic Burlesque 168 The Sense of Reality 179 Chapter Seven: The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's Communion and an Intruder 185 Making Distinctions about the Use of Riches 188 Transcending Reckoning at Belmont 197 Comical/Menacing Mechanism in Shylock 201 The Community Setting Aside Its Machinery 209 Sharing in the Grace of Life 212 Chapter Eight: Rule and Misrule in henry iv 219 Mingling Kings and Clowns 223 Getting Rid of Bad Luck by Comedy 234 The Trial of Carnival in Part Two 243 Chapter Nine: The Alliance of Seriousness and Levity in A You Like It 252 The Liberty of Arden 254 Counterstatements 257 "all nature in love mortal in folly" 260 Chapter Ten: Testing Courtesy and Humanity in Twelfth Night 272 "A most extracting frenzy" 275 "You are betroth'd both to a maid and man" 277 Liberty Testing Courtesy 281 Outside the Garden Gate 292 Index 297
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Princeton University Press A History of Modern French Literature
Book SynopsisAn accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.Trade Review"In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading."--Publishers Weekly "[A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone preparing to teach a French literature survey for the first time will find the book a godsend."--ChoiceTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors, ix Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories, 1 Christopher Prendergast Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature, 20 David Coward Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France, 47 Edwin M. Duval Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity, 71 Raymond Geuss Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman, 91 Wes Williams Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator, 113 Timothy J. Reiss Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse, 137 Hassan Melehy Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy, 155 Timothy Hampton Moliere, Theater, and Modernity, 171 Christopher Braider Racine, Phedre, and the French Classical Stage, 190 Nicholas Paige Lafayette: La Princesse de Cleves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction, 212 Katherine Ibbett From Moralists to Libertines, 229 Eric Mechoulan Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac, 250 Judith Sribnai The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, 269 Larry F. Norman Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth, 291 Nicholas Cronk Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century, 312 Pierre Saint-Amand Women's Voices in Enlightenment France, 330 Catriona Seth Comedy in the Age of Reason, 351 Susan Maslan Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 371 Kate E. Tunstall Rousseau's First Person, 393 Joanna Stalnaker Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac, 414 Aleksandar Stevic Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red, 436 Sarah Rocheville and Etienne Beaulieu Flaubert and Madame Bovary, 451 Peter Brooks Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness, and Modernity, 470 Clive Scott Mallarme and Poetry: Stitching the Random, 495 Roger Pearson Becoming Proust in Time, 514 Michael Lucey Celine/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s, 534 Steven Ungar Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry, 554 Mary Ann Caws Cesaire: Poetry and Politics, 575 Mary Gallagher Sartre's La Nausee and the Modern Novel, 595 Christopher Prendergast Beckett's French Contexts, 615 Jean-Michel Rabate Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature, 634 Nicholas Harrison Acknowledgments, 653 Index, 655
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Princeton University Press Inside Paradise Lost Reading the Designs of
Book SynopsisOpens up readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. This book shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society "As in a great lecture, Quint never roams far from the language of the poem and as the first half of the book moves through the poem chronologically, it would be a particularly useful guide for advanced undergraduates."--Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement "This learned, groundbreaking study illuminates the intricate narrative patterns that are woven into the fabric of Paradise Lost and demonstrates the poem's deeply allusive relationship to prior epic... This book is necessary reading for Miltonists and scholars interested in the epic tradition. And the clear prose and carefully articulated arguments make it fully accessible and helpful to less experienced readers."--Choice "This learned, carefully pondered, and admirably lucid book combines some of the features of a scholarly monograph with those of a critical overview of Milton's greatest poem."--David Hopkins, Milton Quarterly "For its playful style and learned approach, readers will relish, as I did, the chance to return to originals newly brought to light, to attend to delicious intricacies of text, to quarrel, even, with findings. This is a bravura performance, a deeply learned book that should be read by students and scholars of Renaissance comparative literature, and those interested in classical reception, and will be required reading for Milton scholars and students."--Sharon Achinstein, Renassiance Quarterly "Some books matter for what they say, others for when they say it. Inside Paradise Lost matters for both these reasons, and especially for the latter. It is a timely aesthetic study which will be read and re-read by Milton scholars and students. It will be mined for its learning, discussed, challenged, and enjoyed. Literary studies will be so much the better for it."--Leah Whittington, The Cambridge Quarterly "Quint proves a deeply engaging and illuminating guide to the designs, both large and small, of Milton's epic and his career... Quint has a gift for pithy and apt eloquence... There have been many fine books on Milton's epic and its relation to the long epic tradition, but none finer than Quint's."--Stephen M. Fallon, Modern Philology "David Quint's elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise Lost and its designs contains enormous riches... It is a pleasure to read a critical book so sensitive to the rich poetic texture of Milton's work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem's allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts."--David Loewenstein, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1.MILTON'S BOOK OF NUMBERS: BOOK 1 AND ITS CATALOG 15 The Shape of the Catalog 17 Moloch and Belial 1 18 Moloch and Saturn 1 19 Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid 20 Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom 22 Egypt 23 The Catalog and Pandaemonium 24 The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 26 Raising Devils 29 Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers 35 2.ULYSSES AND THE DEVILS: THE UNITY OF BOOK 2 38 The Council 41 Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses 42 Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked 48 Satan and the Doloneia 50 Meanwhile, Back in Hell ... 52 Milton's Telegony 55 Satan's Odyssey 58 Whose Odyssey? 59 3.FEAR OF FALLING: ICARUS, PHAETHON, AND LUCRETIUS 63 Icarus and Satan's Fall Through Chaos 64 Virgil and Lucretius 64 Dante, Tasso, Ovid 67 Satan Voyager 71 Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven 75 Flight and Fall 85 A Poetry Against Falling 88 4.LIGHT, VISION, AND THE UNITY OF BOOK 3 93 Structure and Design 96 Universal Blank 99 Vision 106 The Sun 109 The Paradise of Fools 111 Sun Worshippers 114 Poetry and Science 118 5.THE POLITICS OF ENVY 122 Envy and the New Dispensation 124 Angels and Courtiers 132 Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11-12 144 6.GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A READING OF THE FALL153 The Seduction of Eve 156 The Second Adam as Second Eve 169 Adam's Choice: "One flesh" 176 "Not vastly disproportionall" 185 Changing Places 188 Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene 195 7.REVERSING THE FALL IN BOOK 10 197 Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan 200 Creation and Anti-creation 202 Anti-triumphs 203 The Triumphs of the Son 206 Satan's Triumph 208 Adam and the Winds 211 The Recovery of Human Choice 212 Cherishing Eve 218 Dido and Armida; Creusa 219 Pandora 223 The Exposed Matron 229 8.LEAVING EDEN 234 Deconsecrated Earth 236 Good-bye 245 Notes 249 Bibliography 285 Index 301
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Authors Hand and the Printers Mind
Book SynopsisIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, Trade Review'In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social and cultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (among others), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts for close reading, original observations, and the judicious and fruitful use of sociocultural theory.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge 'These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian of the book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printed books, and digital media vie for attention. By looking with singular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all, works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us to understand not only the written traces that have been left by the past but also the traces that we will leave for the future.' Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "Chartier’s essays provide an impressive model for just such a rigorous and sophisticated investigation of the reading and writing habits of the past..." Andrew G. Bonnell, University of QueenslandTable of ContentsPreface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author’s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Authors Hand and the Printers Mind
Book SynopsisIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, Table of ContentsPreface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author’s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work
£17.09
MB - Cornell University Press Fictions of Embassy
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£54.40
Johns Hopkins University Press The American Renaissance Reconsidered
Book SynopsisPease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Slavery, Revolution, and the American RenaissanceChapter 2. The Other American RenaissanceChapter 3. Poe's Secret AutobiographyChapter 4. F.O. Matthiessen: Authorizing an American RenaissanceChapter 5. Moby Dick and the Cold WarChapter 6. Romance and Real EstateChapter 7. The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln: An Inquiry toward the Relationship of Art and Policy
£22.80
MY - University of Toronto Press Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons
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£62.05
University of Pennsylvania Press Barbarous Antiquity
Book SynopsisBarbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past.Trade Review"Barbarous Antiquity extends our sense of Ovid's dual role as classical exemplar and outlier, and makes a substantial contribution by demonstrating how lyric and narrative poetry were as important to the English image of the Ottoman Mediterranean as drama and travel writing." * John Archer, New York University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation PART I. BARBARIAN INVASIONS Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson's Ars Poetica Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie PART II. REDEEMING OVID Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis PART III. REORIENTING ANTIQUITY Chapter 5. On Chapman Crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: Pearls, Dyes, and Ink in Hero and Leander Epilogue: The Peregrinations of Barbarous Antiquity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Poet and the Antiquaries
Book SynopsisBetween 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and they significantly shaped the perceptions of Chaucer that would hold sway for centuries to come. But it is the stories behind these editions that are the focus of Megan L. Cook's interest in The Poet and the Antiquaries. She explores how antiquarians-historians, lexicographers, religious polemicists, and other readers with a professional, but not necessarily literary, interest in the English past-played an indispensable role in making Chaucer a figure of lasting literary and cultural importance. After establishing the antiquarian involvement in the publication of the folio editions, Cook offers a series of case studies that discuss Chaucer and his works in relation to specific sixteenth-century discourses about the past. She turns to early accounts of Chaucer's biography to show how importanTrade Review"One of the achievements of [Cook's] book is that it outlines the chronology of the developing Chaucer tradition while managing at the same time to differentiate its various elements with telling reference to printed and manuscript sources . . . Cook's survey of the early centuries of Chaucer reception gives a powerful sense of the ways in which he was co-opted in various conceptualizations of nation, language, faith and history." * The Times Literary Supplement *"This book has much to recommend it. It offers a lively treatment of the history of Chaucer's folios through the beginning of the seventeenth century, and will be indispensible to those who work with the English reception of medieval works in the Tudor period. It also demonstrates the extensive reach of antiquarian communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and suggests the existence of networks of textual exchange within England (and even outside of it) that were hitherto unguessed. Any scholar who deals with what Alice S. Miskimin famously called 'the Renaissance Chaucer' should have this book on their shelf." * Modern Philology *"[A] suggestive and sensitive book. It is also intensely readable in a way that does not compromise its rigor, as each chapter is written with a rare level of intellectual and stylistic fluency . . . Cook's central point [is] that 'Chaucer' is largely a product of specific audiences and their needs. As she demonstrates ably throughout this volume, the lingering idea of 'Chaucerian exceptionalism', and the 'untimeliness or temporal slipperiness' with which he is often credited, are conceptions that have their own histories, being leftover traces of his Tudor and Stuart readerships." * Journal of British Studies *"Considered in toto, Cook's book attractively illustrates how 'the medieval past is always shaped by its postmedieval interpreters.' She writes in a crisp, clear, and unpretentious style, which is easy to read. Her love of the specific shines through, driving analyses which are meticulous, copiously documented, and clearly structured. What Cook does is done superlatively well. Leaving one's audience asking for more is no bad thing." * Medium Ævum *"Elegantly written and meticulously documented, The Poet and the Antiquaries offers a genuinely new, original, and exciting intervention into the study of the reception, editorial, and reading history of Geoffrey Chaucer." * Siân Echard, University of British Columbia *"Megan L. Cook both synthesizes strands of current criticism and moves decisively beyond them. Bringing together book and manuscript history, reception studies, the history of the English language, detailed work on Chaucer as an authorial figure, and a sustained exploration of the developing editorial tradition and broader history of literary and cultural scholarship, she creates a fresh perspective on a very canonical figure's afterlife in a much-studied period." * Lucy Munro, King's College, London *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Matter of Virtue
Book SynopsisIf material bodies have inherent, animating powersor virtues, in the premodern sensethen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matternamely, womencannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be humana conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to othersemerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes HaTrade Review"The Matter of Virtue is courageous, temperate, just, and discerning, and it is also constant, faithful, patient, and full of hope. Crocker orchestrates the cardinal virtues, their theological addenda, and their feminine supplements to compose a renewed virtue discourse sustained by feminist philosophy, literary studies, and the history of ideas. Crocker has produced a major work that persuasively demonstrates the affordances of virtue across medieval and early modern studies, with implications for how we study, teach, and work, as well as nurse, heal, and love today." * Renaissance Quarterly *"The Matter of Virtue participates in the much-needed re-embracement of feminist scholarship currently taking place in medieval and early modern studies, and is also informed by recent theoretically inflected work on affect, eco-criticism, and the post-human. Yet its unique and prescient focus on virtuous human work is especially relevant to the pandemic crisis, as the model for ethical living it explores applies well to further crises, from the #MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter to the imperatives of climate change. In short, this revisionist study of Chaucer and Shakespeare comes at a good time… [R]eaders will find within this book a set of richly contextualized paradigms that chart a way forward for a new 'ethical turn' to literary studies." * Speculum *"At the heart of Holly A. Crocker’s study of premodern virtues lies a posthumanist project that prompts feminist reimaginings of embodied excellence in English vernacular poetics from 1343 through 1623…Crocker’s book leaves us with a critical posthuman feminist call to action that requires each generation of premodern and early modern scholars to rethink and reimagine embodied ways of ethically being in the world together." * Comitatus *"In The Matter of Virtue, Holly A. Crocker offers a gendered history of virtue. Her complex account rests on the claim that the understanding of ethical virtue was sharply transformed in the High Middle Ages...The book is bracing: Crocker generalizes with convincing confidence, quoting and illustrating to drive her argument forward, and not merely to confirm and settle it." * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"Attending to the full premodern meaning of virtue as well as to recent feminist philosophy, Holly A. Crocker offers an essential new account of ethical life legible in English texts written during the period of transition from late medieval to early modern. The Matter of Virtue is a timely intervention in the history of literary reading that helps us rethink the gendered ecologies of ethics and virtue." * Patricia Clare Ingham, University of Indiana, Bloomington *"Producing compelling readings of canonical texts and contextualizing the texts among a wealth of theological writings, conduct books, and household management manuals, The Matter of Virtue substantially contributes to feminist scholarship on gender prescriptions, marital relations, and female agency in medieval and early modern literature. Holly A. Crocker convincingly argues that traditional feminine traits such as obedience and endurance should not be diminished or dismissed as passivity but should be regarded as active performances of an embodied ethics of vulnerability." * Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Virtues That Matter PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE Chapter 3. Virtue's Grace: Custance and Other Daughters Chapter 4. Virtue's Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare Conclusion. Legends of Good Women Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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The Catholic University of America Press A Companion to Margaret More Roper Studies Life
Book SynopsisProvides an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as Erasmian piety, Renaissance humanism, and historical and cultural studies more generally.
£56.25
Fordham University Press Resisting Allegory
Book SynopsisIn Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction | vii Introduction: On Texts and Countertexts | 1 Book One: The Legend of Holinesse 1. Displacing Autophobia in The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Ethics, Gender, and Oppositional Reading in the Spenserian Text | 17 Book Two: The Legend of Temperaunce 2. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene | 103 3. Wring Out the Old: Squeezing the Text, 1951–2001 | 143 Book Three: The Legend of Chastity 4. Resisting Translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene | 173 5. Actaeon at the Hinder Gate: The Stag Party in Spenser’s Gardens of Adonis | 211 Acknowledgments | 245 Notes | 247 Index | 289
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Cave City and Eagles Nest An Interpretive
Book SynopsisFocuses on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the ""Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No 2"". This work features the mapa's rare images - including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile - accompanied by fifteen illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, and its complex narrative.
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Apocalyptic History and the Protestant Cause in
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary project offers a rereading of the 1590 Arcadia as an apocalyptic allegory, maintaining that Sidney's revised work participates in contemporary debates on church reform and church history in previously unrecognized ways. The book views Sidney's work in relationship to Protestant Revelation commentaries and apocalyptic church histories and treatises on church reform by Philippe Du Plessis Mornay, George Gifford, William Fulke, Heinrich Bullinger, John Foxe, John Bale, and others. The interpretation is supported by careful analysis of Sidney's additions to and alterations of the original Arcadia, as well as of his allusions to and reworkings of prior epics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Apocalyptic History, Protestant Politics, and Allegorical Methodology in the Revelation Commentaries 2. Protestant Church Historiography and Revelation Commentaries and the Asia Minor Narratives 3. The Early Asia Minor Narratives and the Primitive Church 4. Apocalyptic Arcadia and Elizabethan England 5. Feeding upon Urania’s “Sweet Words”: Overthrowing Antichrist through Devotion to the Word 6. Erasmus in Arcadia 7. Cecropia, Amphialus, and the Church of Antichrist 8. Amphialus and the Half-Reformed Church of England 9. The English Church under the Tudor Queens in Sidney’s Topical Allegory 10. Sidney’s Revised Arcadia as Epic and Apocalypse: An Overview Bibliography Index of Biblical References General Index
£61.20
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Race and Affect in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordMargo HendricksIntroduction Carol Mejia LaPerleSection 1: Racial Formations of Affective CommunitiesImagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact ZoneAmbereen DadabhoyDesire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneMira Assaf KafantarisNew World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life WritingMeghan E. HallEarly Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor JudaicusDrew DanielSection 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and GenderConversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of VeniceSara CoodinNavigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the WestKirsten N. MendozaBranded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King LearMario DiGangiSection 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-BlacknessBlack Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black RacismAveryl Dietering“Away, you Ethiope”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Denial of Black Affect—A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations Matthieu ChapmanOthello’s Unfortunate HappinessCora FoxThe Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady SonnetsCarol Mejia LaPerle
£18.58
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Race and Affect in Early Modern English
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordMargo HendricksIntroduction Carol Mejia LaPerleSection 1: Racial Formations of Affective CommunitiesImagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact ZoneAmbereen DadabhoyDesire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneMira Assaf KafantarisNew World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life WritingMeghan E. HallEarly Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor JudaicusDrew DanielSection 2: Racialized Affects of Sex and GenderConversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women’s Difference in The Merchant of VeniceSara CoodinNavigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the WestKirsten N. MendozaBranded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King LearMario DiGangiSection 3: Feelings and Forms of Anti-BlacknessBlack Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black RacismAveryl Dietering“Away, you Ethiope”: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Denial of Black Affect—A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations Matthieu ChapmanOthello’s Unfortunate HappinessCora FoxThe Racialized Affects of Ill-will in the Dark Lady SonnetsCarol Mejia LaPerle
£24.00
Cornell University Press Politics Philosophy and the Production of
Book SynopsisLiterary works of the Romantic period have often been viewed primarily as expressions of escapism, disillusionment or apostasy on the writer's part. In contrast, this book argues that political repression had an important effect on the production of romantic texts.
£29.45
University of Toronto Press The Epic of Juan Latino
Book SynopsisIn The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino’s hard-won status, he set out to secure his position by publishing an epic poem in Latin verse, the Austrias Carmen, that would demonstrate his mastery of Europe’s international literary language and celebrate his own African heritage.Through Latino’s remarkable, hitherto untold story, Wright illuminates the racial and religious tensions of sixteenth-century SpainTrade Review"Wright has produced an admirable and highly recommended study." -- William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Lost Portrait and a Forgotten Name Part I: From Slave to Freedman in Granada Chapter 1: Latin Lessons Amid the Remnants of Al-Andalus Chapter 2: Civil War, Shattered Convivencia Part II: The Epic of Lepanto Chapter 3: A Black Poet and a Habsburg Phoenix Chapter 4: Christians and Muslims on the Battle Lines Chapter 5: The Costs of Modern Warfare Conclusion: Song of the Black Swan Epilogue: Juan Latino in the Harlem Renaissance Appendix 1: Elegy for Philip II, Annotated Translation Appendix 2: Chronology
£45.90
University of Toronto Press Alien Albion
Book SynopsisAlien Albionchallenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.Trade Review'Oldenburg presents a solid balance of primary and secondary historical sources in his overall analysis of English cultural adaptation to immigration, as well as engaging with relevant literary scholarship.' -- Roger A. Ladd Sixteenth Century Journal, vol 46:01:2016 'Alien Albion not only tenders a thoughtful and engaging study of the various paradigms surrounding multicultural communities, but it also offers a timely and important contribution to studies of immigration in early modern literature.' -- Ruben Espinosa Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016 'Alien Albion is a welcome and timely contribution, urging us to rethink the critical predominance of early modern nationhood.' -- Madeline Bassnett Renaissance and Reformation vol 38:03:2015 'Highly recommended.' -- J.D. Sharpe Choice vol 52:08:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Forms of Multiculturalism in Early Modern England I. Sectarian Inclusivity Chapter 1. From the Dutch Acrobat to Hance Beerpot: Multicultural Mid-Tudor England. Chapter 2. The Rhetoric of Religious Refuge Under Elizabeth I II. Provincial Globalism Chapter 3. Artisanal Tolerance: The Case of Thomas Deloney Chapter 4. Language and Labor in Thomas Dekker's Provincial Globalism III. Worldly Domesticity Chapter 5. The "Jumbled" City: The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money Chapter 6. Shakespeare, the Foreigner Conclusion: The Return of Hans Beer-Pot Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of
Book SynopsisGarcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly goods. In his poems, a variety of objects, including tapestries, paintings, statues, urns, mirrors, and relics participate in lyric acts of discovery and self-revelation, reveal memory as contingent and unstable, expose knowledge of the self as deceptive, and show how history intersects with the ideology of empire.Mary E. Barnard’s study argues persuasively that the material culture of early sixteenth-century Europe embedded within Garcilaso’s poems offers a key to understanding the interplay between objects and texts that make those works such vibrantTrade Review'Barnard's studies of Garcilaso's Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states... Barnard's book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.' -- Eric Clifford Graf Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016 'A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)... Essential.' -- K.M Sibbald Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Editions and Translations List of Illustrations Introduction: Engaging the Material Chapter 1: Weaving, Writing, and the Art of Gift-Giving Tapestry Culture The Poem as Fabric: Weavers and Writers Chapter 2: Empire, Memory, and History An Archive in Cloth Unearthing Carthage Chapter 3: Objects of Dubious Persuasion The Lyre and the Viol(a) The Shell Boat A Marble Statue Chapter 4: The Mirror and the Urn At the Fountain of Narcissus The Urn's Tale Chapter 5: Eros at Material Sites Weaver Nymphs in Crystal Palaces Daphne's Scenographic Body Mapping the Humoral Interior Tablet of the Soul Chapter 6: Staging Objects in Pastoral Falling in Love with a Statue Mourning Becomes Material Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Lector Ludens
Book SynopsisIn sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes’s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes’s intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.Trade Review'I endorse Scham's book as a fine contribution to Cervantes studies.' -- Eduardo Olid Guerrero Modern Philology vol 113:04:2016 'The range and depth of the study are admirable. The approach is scholarly and distinctive with some surprising and effective juxtapositions - and the treatment of the topic is, appropriately entertaining. Highly recommended.' -- E.H. Friedman Choice Magazine vol 52:06:2015 'Scham's book is a fascinating and scholarly analysis of games and play in Cervantes and an excellent accounting of his place in wider European context.' -- Harry Sieber Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Leisure and Recreation in Early Modern Spain * Theoretical Contexts * Prerational and Rational Play in the Epic, the Picaresque, and the Quixotic * The Space and Function of Eutrapelia * Cristobal Mendez, Rodrigo Caro, Fray Alonso Remon: Therapeutic Exercise * Human Divinity and Depravity: Vives, Erasmus, Montaigne * Play types in Golden Age Spain * Chess * Games of Chance * Physical activity and competition * Mimesis * Ilinx * Regulating play in the Indias 2. Solitary, Collaborative and Complicit Play in Don Quijote * Cervantes and the Ambivalent Freedom of Play * Players and Games in Don Quijote * Play and Laughter in Don Quijote * Laughing At, Laughing With * Comic Doubt and Delusion in Don Quijote * Ludic Scepticism in Don Quijote II 3. The Novelas ejemplares: Ocio, Exemplarity, and Community * Agonistic and Restrictive Play in El licenciado Vidriera * The Agonistic Intellect: Cruel Comedy and Vidriera's Humourless Vision * The Picaresque and Play in El coloquio de los perros * Play and the Liminal Underworld Experience * Dialogue and the Digressive Quest for Meaning in El coloquio de los perros * Play and the Exemplarity of Process * Picaresque Freedom and Festive Play * The Festive Mode of the Picaresque * Monipodio's Criminal and Ludic Community in Rinconete y Cortadillo * Distance, Morality, and the Allure of the Aesthetic Experience * Generic Interplay in La ilustre fregona * Interrogation and Validation of the Fictional World Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Ovidian Vogue
Book SynopsisMoss's research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid's cultural authority.Trade Review'Moss is refreshingly conversant with every text he analyzes in his impressive fashion, original in his ideas and approach while possessed of traditional close-reading skills.' -- M.L. Stapelton Modern Philology vol 113:04:2016 'Highly recommended.' -- B.E. Brandt Choice Magazine vol 52:07:2015 'Moss's study draws careful attention to the curious commingling of Ovidian and anti-Ovidian rhetoric in the era, His deft handling of this rich and promising line of inquiry may well suggest new paths for scholars exploring the character of late Elizabethan Ovidianism.' -- Lindsay Ann Reid Sixteenth Century Journal vol46:03:2015 'The Ovidian Vogue explores an impressive range of mostly late Elizabethan narrative poetry and thereby contributes an interesting and valuable argument to the current body of work on Ovidianism in that period.' -- Sarah Carter Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "Note how she quotes the leaves" Impotence and Stillbirth: Nashe, Shakespeare, and the Ovidian Debut Shadow and Corpus: The Shifting Figure of Ovid in Chapman's Early Poetry Ovid in the Godless Poem: Allusive Rebellion in Spenser's Legend of Justice The Post-Metamorphic Landscape in Drayton's Endymion and Phoebe and England's Heroical Epistles The Brief Ovidian Career of John Donne Conclusion: "It sticks strangely, whatever it is" Bibliography Notes
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University of Toronto Press Science and the Human Comedy
Book SynopsisNew scientific theories, methods, and objectives exert subtle and often unnoticed influences on literary creation. The developments of the attitudes and aspirations of French scientists between the Renaissance and the Revolution and the impact of these new outlooks on French literature form the theme of this book by an authority in the interdisciplinary treatment of science and literature. Implicit in the author's exploration is the view that in the development of the scientific revolution there was no overall design, but rather random growth; human beings turn up at various moments, some of them appropriately, some of them not, so that the record is in part a story of successful endeavour, in part a comedy little short of farce. in the historical panorama of this book, four auhors, each known for his ironic, even comic, insight into the human condition, are chosen to illustrate the theme. As men of letters, Rabelais and Voltaire exhibit well-defined scientific interests, while Pasc
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University of Toronto Press Reconsidering Boccaccio
Book SynopsisReconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Boccaccio’s own writings, Reconsidering Boccaccio brings a variety of methodologies and critical approaches to the works of one of the ‘three crowns’ of Italian literature. Containing essays by scholars not only of Italian literature, but also history, law, classics, and Middle Eastern literature, this collection is part of a vital movement to open up a dialogue among researchers in various areas of study that touch on the works of Boccaccio. The volume highlights the necessity of a technical and historical framework when approaching Boccaccio studies, while also shedding new light on the lives of women and their role in the reception of BoTrade Review"This collection of essays, which moves from the close examination of Boccaccio’s own manuscript of the Decameron to the larger social and legal contextualization of his works to their reception in Renaissance Europe, will prove a valuable point of reference to students and scholars of Boccaccio for years to come." -- David G. Lummus, University of Notre Dame * Speculum *"This is a learned and provocative set of essays that should interest any scholar working in early modern European or Mediterranean studies." -- Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California, Davis * , University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsOlivia Holmes and Dana Stewart (Binghamton University), Introduction I MATERIAL CONTEXTS 1. K. P. Clarke (University of York), “Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron” 2. Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol), “Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds” II SOCIAL CONTEXTS: FRIENDSHIP 3. Jason Houston (University of Oklahoma), “Boccaccio on Friendships (Theory and Practice)” 4. Todd Boli (Independent Scholar), “Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profile of Mainardo Cavalcanti” III SOCIAL CONTEXTS: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND THE LAW 5. Alessia Ronchetti (University of Cambridge), “Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta” 6. Grace Delmolino (Columbia University), “The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex” 7. Sara Diaz (Fairfield University), “Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante” 8. Mary Anne Case (University of Chicago Law School), “What Turns on Whether Women are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan?” IV POLITICAL AND AUTHORIAL CONTEXTS: ON FAMOUS WOMEN 9. Elizabeth Casteen (Binghamton University), “On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court” 10. Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania), “Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des Dames” 11. Lori Walters (Florida State University), “Reading like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiu” V LITERARY INTERTEXTS 12. Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago), “A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus” 13. Katherine A. Brown (Princeton University), “Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau Barat et Haimet and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6” 14. Filippo Andrei (University of California, Berkeley), “The Tragicomedy of Lament: The Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Madonna Fiammetta” 15. Nora Peterson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), “Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron”
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University of Toronto Press Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds
Book SynopsisMinding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal, the manner in which they interact with the animal, and the place in which the animal lives. Often this has little if anything to do with the actual cognitive abilities of the animal. However, occasionally early authors made surprisingly accurate assumptions about the thoughts and feelings of animals. Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including: the utility of anthropomorphism; the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts; attempts at understanding the minds of animalsTrade Review"Minding Animals is a welcome addition to the growing body of studies about animals in Hispanism. It shows how early Spanish literature advocates the mindedness of animals and teaches nuanced meanings of anthropomorphism as a productive way to understand animals." -- John Beusterien, Texas Tech University * Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume XCVI, Number 10, 2019 *"Steven Wagschal's book is a goldmine of information about animal minds." -- Marc Bekoff * Psychology Today *"This is a fine example of literary research and writing that ties into recent trends in interdisciplinary human–animal studies, ethology, and medieval and early modern studies." -- Martha Few, Pennsylvania State University * Bulletin of the Comediantes *"Minding Animals is a carefully researched, accessible, and highly readable book that makes a valuable contribution to the history of animal cognition." -- Helen Cowie, University of York * Speculum *Table of ContentsMinding Animals with Anthropomorphism Deploying The Animal in Medieval Miracles, Bestiaries and Fables Exploiting The Animal through Husbandry and Hunting Describing The Animal in New World Habitats Embodying Animals: Cervantes and Animal Cognition Minding Animals after Cervantes
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University of Toronto Press Iberian Chivalric Romance
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation. A comprehensive introduction explains the subject, its importance for the study of early modern fiction writing in general, and the state of Anglo-Spanish literary relations at the time. Contributors consider the impact of Iberian chivalric writing on other contemporary genres such as native English romance, letter-writing, and chronicle and explore the influence of translations in English prose fiction from the 1590s to the mid-seventeenth century. The volume delves into the role of predominant translator Anthony Munday in the literary book market, approaching some of his most representative translations Amadis, Palmendos, Primaleon of Greece, and Palmerin of England and examining the contribution of these works to early modern cultural debates on sexuality, marriage, female individualism, coloTrade Review"The book offers an insightful approach to the different ways in which Iberian chivalric romances permeated English literature and culture for over a century and vindicates the relevance of these translations, especially those by Munday, to the study of English Renaissance literature." -- David Arbesú, University of South Florida * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Iberian Books of Chivalry in English Translation Leticia Álvarez-Recio Part One: Iberian Chivalric Romance in the Early Modern English Book Trade 1. The Publication of Chivalric Romances in England, 1570–1603 Jordi Sánchez-Martí Part Two: Iberian Chivalric Romance in Anthony Munday’s Translation: Case Studies on Early Modern English Culture and Ideology 2. Sir Francis Drake: Conquest and Colonization in Anthony Munday’s Palmendos (1589) Leticia Álvarez-Recio 3. The Portrait of the Femme Sole in Anthony Munday’s The First Book of Primaleon of Greece María Beatriz Hernández Pérez 4. “Such maner of stuff”: Translating Material London in Anthony Munday’s Palmerin of England Louise Wilson Part Three: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Literature on English Literature 5. The Rhetoric of Letter Writing: The Amadís de Gaula in Translation Rocío G. Sumillera 6. Philosophizing the Amadís Cycle: Feliciano de Silva, Jacques Gohory, and Philip Sidney Timothy D. Crowley 7. Portuguese and Spanish Arthuriana: The Case for Munday’s Cosmopolitanism Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon 8. Anthony Munday, Romance Translations, and History Writing: Church Rights, Toleration, and the Unity of Christendom, 1609–1633 Donna B. Hamilton Part Four: The Impact of Iberian Chivalric Romance on English Prose Fiction 9. Iberian Chivalric Romance and the Formation of Fiction in Early Modern England Goran Stanivukovic 10. La Celestina and the Reception of Spanish Literature in England Helen Cooper Afterword by Alex Davis Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Collected Works of Erasmus
Book SynopsisThe final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work affords the first opportunity to evaluate and analyse Erasmus' poems in English. And for those interested in Renaissance and Reformation poetry in general, these offer an intriguing look at the work of one of the towering figures of the period writing in a genre that was, for him, unusual.The annotations include a path-breaking commentary piece by Harry Vredeveld on Erasmus' most famous poem, `Poem on the Trouble of Old Age.' Another important feature is the appearance of the original Latin of each poem alongside the English translation.Volumes 85 and 86 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series – Two-volume set.
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University of Toronto Press Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body Goran V. Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University Part I: Identification and Desire Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé Carla Freccero, University of California at Santa Cruz Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia Jim Ellis, University of Calgary Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly Mark Dooley, University of Teesside A Garden of Her Own: Marvell’s Nymph and the Order of Nature Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier University ‘Male deformities’: Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels Mario Digangi, CUNY. Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington’s Ariosto Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys’s Englished ‘Narcissus and Echo’ Gina Bloom, Lawrence University The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser Michael Pincombe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University Part Ill: Textualization Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne Raphael Lyne, New Hall, Cambridge Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’ Judith Deitch, University of Toronto ‘If that which is lost be not found’: Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter’s Tale Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Afterword Valerie Traub, University of Michigan Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Shakespeare 1971
Book SynopsisLeading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971. This volume presents a carefully selected edition of twenty of the papers presented at the Congress, including all available papers in the plenary sessions, a few of the pecial sessions papers, 'an address at a banquet,' and the reports of the chairmen of the Investigative Committees. The contributors focus on eight general themes: C. Walter Hodges and Herbert Berry on the Elizabethan playhouse; M.C. Bradbrook, Charlton Hinman, and Fredson Bowers on text and canon; Jonas A. Barish and G.R. Hibbard on verse and prose; Norman Rabkin on critical approaches to Shakespeare; David Bevington and Wolfgang Clemen on Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries; H.D.F. Kitto and Michel Grivelet on Shakespeare and the dramatists of other ages; Jean Jacquiot and R.W. Ingram on Shakespeare and other arts, and Grigori Kozintsev and Bernard Beckerman on Shakespea
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University of Toronto Press Roleplaying in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.Shakespeare’s plays, however, transformed this familiar notion from a cliché to a fertile source of invention. In the past two decades, and especially since the publication of Anne Righter’s Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play in 1962, the idea has received considerable critical attention. This new work supplements and extends recent studies by examining in detail the function of the histrionic metaphors, both verbal and other, in Shakespeare’s plays.In Role-playing in Shakespeare, Professor Van Laan argues that the theatrical allusions, disguises, impersonations, and conscious or unconscious self-misrepresentations which abound in these plays exemplify a basic concern
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University of Toronto Press The View from Minervas Tower
Book SynopsisPatricia Vicari demonstrates Burton’s control over rhetorical strategies and selection of materials in one of the great prose works of the English Renaissance, The Anatomy of Melancholy. She argues that Burton’s aim of curing melancholy is both pastoral and therapeutic, since melancholy is both a disease and the state of unregeneracy, but the ultimate authorial presence is that of the preacher trying to bring about conversion. One of his major strategies is to disguise that presence. Throughout much of the book attention is directed toward worldly matters and secular knowledge. The immediate authorial presence therefor is that of ‘Robert the experienced,’ another victim of melancholy, offering the record of his own self-cure as a main persuasive tactic.Vicari examines the kinds of knowledges that Burton exhibits to the reader in three chapters dealing with nature, God, and man. In each Vicari singles out for more detailed discussion special
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University of Toronto Press Ecologues Epitaphs and Sonnets
Book SynopsisWhen at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar. He was the first writer to introduce into English literature Montemayor's pastoral romance Diana, later an important source for Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. His short lyrics, many of them occasional, provides an image of the society of the time, and have been admired by modern critics as representative of the native plain style.The small volume of 1563 was last edited by Edward Arber in 1871. In this new edition Judith Kennedy offers a modernized text, with introduction, commentary, and textual apparatus. The volume has been designed for students with little knowledge of the period, offering them a readable
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Cornell University Press Petrarchism at Work
Book SynopsisThe Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (13041374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These Petrarchan poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poetsas craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch's legacy.Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and techniqueTrade ReviewKennedy's command of the source materials and close readings of poetic variants are exceptional. With Petrarchism at Work he has written another authoritative and original study of Petrarch's legacy that will greatly impact theeld. * Renaissance Quarterly *Invites debate, reflection, and further contributions on a widening variety of textual corpora. This fine book has much to recommend it, especially to English-language students of Renaissance literature and history who seek to weigh the importance of one of Renaissance Europe's principal literary idioms as its distinctive forms appear in a representative variety of national contexts. * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Marketplace of Mercury Part One: Petrarch and Italian Poetry1. Petrarch as Homo Economicus 2. Making Petrarch Matter: The Parts and Labor of Textual Revision 3. Jeweler's Daughter Sings for Doge: Gaspara Stampa’s Entrepreneurial Poetics 4. Incommensurate Gifts: Michelangelo and the Economy of Revision Part Two: Pierre De Ronsard and Pléiade Aesthetics1. Polished to Perfection: Ronsard’s Investment in Les Amours 2. Ronsard Furieux: Interest in Ariosto 3. Passions and Privations: Writing Sonnets like a Pro in Les Amours de Marie4. The Smirched Muse: Commercializing Sonnets pour Hélène Part Three: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Economy of Petrarchan Aesthetics1. To Possess Is Not to Own: The Cost of the Dark Lady and the Young Man 2. Polish and Skill: Will’s Interest and Self-Interest in Sonnets 61–99 3. Owning Up to Furor: The "Poets’ War" and Its Aftermath in Sonnets 100–1264. Shakespeare as Professional: The Economy of Revision in Sonnets 1–60 Conclusion: Mercurial Economies
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Cornell University Press Echoes of Desire
Book SynopsisEchoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient patron on the other.Trade ReviewDubrow’s attempt to renegotiate a definition of Petrarchism and its counterdiscourses ultimately succeeds because she insists on the value of traditional literary formalism, including attention to epigram and the treatment of literary genres as ‘metaphors for perspectives and attitudes. Her sensitive and nuanced close readings of verse reveal quite specifically how diacritical desire functions within these poems and how these poems, in turn, participate in a critical dialogue. This thoughtful and thought- provoking book deserves our attention. -- Jeffrey N. Nelson * Sixteenth Century Journal *This book is packed with research and revelations about the Renaissance lyric tradition, set forth in a consummate critical style. * Clio *
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Cornell University Press Phantasmatic Shakespeare
Book SynopsisRepresentations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind's ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare's portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain's image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare's works exploit this epistTrade Review[A] shrewd analysis of [Shakespeare's] verse and drama.... Roychoudhury's study makes a compelling contribution to the field of cognitive theory and embodied experience in early modern drama.... The strength of the book resides in its close reading of Shakespeare's language of imagination which Roychoudhury teases out with dexterity and tenderness. * The Review of English Studies *Roychoudhury's study makes a compelling contribution to the field of cognitive theory and embodied experience in early modern drama. * The Review of English Studies *This is...a book that feels necessary and innovative in its renewed attention to early modern psychological models, not in order to reduce them to material bases but rather to demonstrate the poetic power of their irreconcilability. * Modern Philology *Ultimately Rouchoudhury contributes a much-needed addition to the corpus of mental studies in Shakespeare...Most of all, however, this work serves as an important reference point for scholars looking to consider interdisciplinary Shakespeare studies in a new way. * EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Theseus, Phantasia, and the Scientific Renaissance 1. Between Heart and Eye: Anatomies of Imagination in the Sonnets 2. Children of Fancy: Academic Idleness and Love's Labor's Lost 3. Of Atoms, Air, and Insects: Mercutio's Vain Fantasy 4. Seeming to See: King Lear's Mental Optics 5. Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma: The Pathologies of Macbeth 6. Chimeras: Natural History and the Shapes of The Tempest Epilogue: The Rude Fantasticals Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Blotted Lines
Book SynopsisBlotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative processthe idea that William Shakespeare never blotted out lineto argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students'' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early modern rhetorical theory, material culture, and social networks.Tracing the productive struggles of such writers as George Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Davies of Hereford, Lady Anne Southwell, and Shakespeare across their manuscripts, Desai identifies in their work instances of discomposition: frustration, hesitation, self-doubt, and insecurity. Inspired to unmake their poems so that they might remake them, these poets welcomed discomposition because it catalyzed ongoing thinking and learning. Blotted Lines brings literary scholarship into conversation witTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Style: George Gascoigne's "Patched Cote" Reflection: The Academic Death Penalty 2. Invention: Philip Sidney's "Fear of Maybe" Reflection: Released into Language 3. Revision: John Davies of Hereford's "Rough Hewings" Reflection: Teaching without Judging 4. Editing: Anne Southwell's "Extent of Paper" Reflection: Generous Thinking 5. Performance Anxiety: William Shakespeare's "Perfectness" Reflection: Ars Amateuria
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Stanford University Press The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem:
Book SynopsisThomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.Trade Review"We take great poems to have survived history by virtue of their excellence. Peter Murphy shows how wrong we are. He tells a vivid, compelling story of one poem's survival across five centuries of reckless printers, contentious critics, warring editors, and devoted readers, and of all the good luck that's kept it alive." -- Jeff Dolven * Princeton University *"Murphy turns the story of a single work into a moving, lyrical meditation on the vicissitudes of poetry as it enters the unpredictable worlds of readers, collectors, editors, and scholars. Beautifully attuned to what can and cannot be known about a poem's history, this book provides a model for understanding what it means for literature to endure." -- Andrew Elfenbein * University of Minnesota *"Beautifully written and utterly original, Peter Murphy's study of Wyatt's 'They Flee From Me' as it passes through the hands and minds of readers from the sixteenth century to the present is a profound meditation on how we remember and forget the past, on everything that makes us truly human." -- John Guillory * New York University *"Peter Murphy's superb book takes Wyatt's perhaps most famous poem, "They flee from me,' and turns it into a parable of loss, rediscovery, and the fragility and chance of how the lyric poem's small proportions generate capacious meaning over time and vastly different cultural contexts. Murphy's work is admirable in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin....[It] provides singular access to the 'vse of Poesie' as the original cause for what it means to be human." -- Daniel Fischlin * Renaissance and Reformation *"Murphy's study and style are subtly and pleasurably convincing in their discussion of fine prosodic and stylistic distinctions....[One] of the most interesting provocations in the English Renaissance this year." -- Ryan Netzley * Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPart I: Thomas Wyatt Writes a Poem and Shows It to Others chapter abstractThe first section of the First Part is about the making of "They Flee from Me" and its participation in the daily life of people nearby. It focuses on the manuscript books in which "They Flee from Me" is first recorded, the "Egerton" and "Devonshire" manuscripts, and describes the performance and transformation of traditional poetic modes that Thomas Wyatt accomplishes. It then moves to a discussion of the first printing of the poem in Tottel's Miscellany. This part ends with a discussion of the poem's lapsing out of culture and memory, conducted by considering a seventeenth-century user of the Egerton manuscript who wrote over and crossed out many of the poems. Broader questions about the functions of poetry are raised through a consideration of some algebra written next to the poem and a comparison of the languages of poetry and mathematics. Part II: A Century of Learning, and the Invention of Literature chapter abstractThe Second Part begins by discussing the first reprinters of Thomas Wyatt's poetry, circa 1720, and uses these reprintings to present the many challenges and impossibilities involved in trying to represent the past accurately. It then moves to the story of the main focus of the Second Part, the eighteenth-century cleric and editor Thomas Percy, whose career provides an opportunity to show how reprinting old poetry gets entangled with the eighteenth-century project of nation and empire building. The troubled nature of Percy's work is dramatized through his bitter conflict with Joseph Ritson, a rival editor and a fierce, contrarian Jacobin. Percy also writes on the page in the Egerton manuscript on which "They Flee from Me" appears, and meditation on this use of the manuscript allows for broader consideration of issues of editing, printing, poetry, and personal ambition. Part III: More Learning, the British Library, and the Song of the Professor chapter abstractThe Third Part traces the profound reanimation of old poetry that coincides with the invention of English Literature as a school subject. The first section of this part concerns George Frederic Nott, a gifted editor who comprehensively reprinted Wyatt's poetry and "They Flee from Me" along the way. Further reflection on the life of the Egerton manuscript provides a context for the entry of the manuscript into the British Library, its current home. This part concludes by discussing the work of Arthur Quiller-Couch, the editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the first Professor of English at Cambridge University. The modern University and its associated culture is depicted as a new kind of Court, and the Professor as a new kind of (cultural) courtier, using poetry as the subject and object of ambition. Part IV: Coming to America and Making it Big chapter abstractIn the twentieth century "They Flee from Me" becomes the Wyatt poem people know and reprint, when it becomes a kind of hero of the burgeoning industry of English teaching. This Part describes the full maturation of academic culture in the twentieth-century United States and the important place the study of old poetry was given in this culture. It focuses on Cleanth Brooks, a Yale English Professor who put "They Flee from Me" in his profoundly influential first textbook, in 1936. This Part argues that while methods have changed since the demise of Brooks and his "New" criticism, the reading and reprinting of old poetry are still primarily driven by the elaborate culture of testing, evaluation, and moral instruction, both for Professors and for students, resident in the contemporary education industry. The last reprinting considered at length is that of Stephen Greenblatt, in his era-creating Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Conclusions chapter abstractThe final part meditates on several of the big questions that have been in play throughout the book. Is an old poem a form of heritable knowledge? Do people get "better" at poetry? Is it possible to be "right" when saying what an old poem is about and what function it had in the past? What kind of object does an old poem become when it is the target of schooling and evaluation? It argues that the reprinting of old poetry is always instrumental and always both wrong and right about the abject and triumphant individual old poem. It argues that "They Flee from Me" survived because it functions so well in the environment of the school and university—and that is because this environment is so similar to the (deadly, interesting) environment of Henry VIII's court.
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Stanford University Press The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem:
Book SynopsisThomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.Trade Review"We take great poems to have survived history by virtue of their excellence. Peter Murphy shows how wrong we are. He tells a vivid, compelling story of one poem's survival across five centuries of reckless printers, contentious critics, warring editors, and devoted readers, and of all the good luck that's kept it alive." -- Jeff Dolven * Princeton University *"Murphy turns the story of a single work into a moving, lyrical meditation on the vicissitudes of poetry as it enters the unpredictable worlds of readers, collectors, editors, and scholars. Beautifully attuned to what can and cannot be known about a poem's history, this book provides a model for understanding what it means for literature to endure." -- Andrew Elfenbein * University of Minnesota *"Beautifully written and utterly original, Peter Murphy's study of Wyatt's 'They Flee From Me' as it passes through the hands and minds of readers from the sixteenth century to the present is a profound meditation on how we remember and forget the past, on everything that makes us truly human." -- John Guillory * New York University *"Peter Murphy's superb book takes Wyatt's perhaps most famous poem, "They flee from me,' and turns it into a parable of loss, rediscovery, and the fragility and chance of how the lyric poem's small proportions generate capacious meaning over time and vastly different cultural contexts. Murphy's work is admirable in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin....[It] provides singular access to the 'vse of Poesie' as the original cause for what it means to be human." -- Daniel Fischlin * Renaissance and Reformation *"Murphy's study and style are subtly and pleasurably convincing in their discussion of fine prosodic and stylistic distinctions....[One] of the most interesting provocations in the English Renaissance this year." -- Ryan Netzley * Studies in English Literature *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPart I: Thomas Wyatt Writes a Poem and Shows It to Others chapter abstractThe first section of the First Part is about the making of "They Flee from Me" and its participation in the daily life of people nearby. It focuses on the manuscript books in which "They Flee from Me" is first recorded, the "Egerton" and "Devonshire" manuscripts, and describes the performance and transformation of traditional poetic modes that Thomas Wyatt accomplishes. It then moves to a discussion of the first printing of the poem in Tottel's Miscellany. This part ends with a discussion of the poem's lapsing out of culture and memory, conducted by considering a seventeenth-century user of the Egerton manuscript who wrote over and crossed out many of the poems. Broader questions about the functions of poetry are raised through a consideration of some algebra written next to the poem and a comparison of the languages of poetry and mathematics. Part II: A Century of Learning, and the Invention of Literature chapter abstractThe Second Part begins by discussing the first reprinters of Thomas Wyatt's poetry, circa 1720, and uses these reprintings to present the many challenges and impossibilities involved in trying to represent the past accurately. It then moves to the story of the main focus of the Second Part, the eighteenth-century cleric and editor Thomas Percy, whose career provides an opportunity to show how reprinting old poetry gets entangled with the eighteenth-century project of nation and empire building. The troubled nature of Percy's work is dramatized through his bitter conflict with Joseph Ritson, a rival editor and a fierce, contrarian Jacobin. Percy also writes on the page in the Egerton manuscript on which "They Flee from Me" appears, and meditation on this use of the manuscript allows for broader consideration of issues of editing, printing, poetry, and personal ambition. Part III: More Learning, the British Library, and the Song of the Professor chapter abstractThe Third Part traces the profound reanimation of old poetry that coincides with the invention of English Literature as a school subject. The first section of this part concerns George Frederic Nott, a gifted editor who comprehensively reprinted Wyatt's poetry and "They Flee from Me" along the way. Further reflection on the life of the Egerton manuscript provides a context for the entry of the manuscript into the British Library, its current home. This part concludes by discussing the work of Arthur Quiller-Couch, the editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse and the first Professor of English at Cambridge University. The modern University and its associated culture is depicted as a new kind of Court, and the Professor as a new kind of (cultural) courtier, using poetry as the subject and object of ambition. Part IV: Coming to America and Making it Big chapter abstractIn the twentieth century "They Flee from Me" becomes the Wyatt poem people know and reprint, when it becomes a kind of hero of the burgeoning industry of English teaching. This Part describes the full maturation of academic culture in the twentieth-century United States and the important place the study of old poetry was given in this culture. It focuses on Cleanth Brooks, a Yale English Professor who put "They Flee from Me" in his profoundly influential first textbook, in 1936. This Part argues that while methods have changed since the demise of Brooks and his "New" criticism, the reading and reprinting of old poetry are still primarily driven by the elaborate culture of testing, evaluation, and moral instruction, both for Professors and for students, resident in the contemporary education industry. The last reprinting considered at length is that of Stephen Greenblatt, in his era-creating Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Conclusions chapter abstractThe final part meditates on several of the big questions that have been in play throughout the book. Is an old poem a form of heritable knowledge? Do people get "better" at poetry? Is it possible to be "right" when saying what an old poem is about and what function it had in the past? What kind of object does an old poem become when it is the target of schooling and evaluation? It argues that the reprinting of old poetry is always instrumental and always both wrong and right about the abject and triumphant individual old poem. It argues that "They Flee from Me" survived because it functions so well in the environment of the school and university—and that is because this environment is so similar to the (deadly, interesting) environment of Henry VIII's court.
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