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Book SynopsisA Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
Trade Review"The individual chapters, however, do provide new (and advanced) members of the field with authoritative, accessible and well-written guides to important topics, authors and works." (The Society for Renaissance Studies, 1 April 2011)
"The Companion is both a learned introduction for scholars of English literature, and a fascinating compilation of academic essays well suited to university libraries". (Languages & Literature, November 2010)
"The Companion is both a learned introduction for scholars of English literature, and a fascinating compilation of academic essays well suited to university libraries." (Reference Reviews, October 2010)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chronology xvi
Kathleen Bossert
Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the Sixteenth Century xxxi
Introduction 1
Kent Cartwright
Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts 13
1 The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism 15
Peter Marshall
2 Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland 31
Kathryn A. Edwards
3 The Tudor Experience of Islam 49
Matthew Dimmock
4 Protestantism, Profi t, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World 63
Nancy Bradley Warren
5 International Infl uences and Tudor Music 79
Ross W. Duffin
6 Tudor Technology in Transition 95
Adam Max Cohen
7 Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin 111
Tanya Pollard
Part II Manuscript, Print, and Letters 123
8 Manuscripts in Tudor England 125
Steven W. May and Heather Wolfe
9 John Skelton and the State of Letters 140
Seth Lerer
10 The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others 151
David R. Carlson
11 Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology 178
Helen Smith
12 Printers of Interludes 192
Peter Happé
Part III Literary Origins, Presences, Absences 211
13 Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature 213
Deanne Williams
14 The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama 228
Theresa Coletti and Gail McMurray Gibson
15 French Presences in Tudor England 246
A. E. B. Coldiron
16 Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? 261
Pamela J. Benson
Part IV Authors, Works, and Modes 277
17 More’s Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism 279
Anne Lake Prescott
18 The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew 295
Joan Pong Linton
19 Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton’s Needle 309
Robert Hornback
20 Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter 324
Pamela Allen Brown
21 Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance 339
Alastair Fowler
22 Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge 350
Gavin Alexander
23 Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter 364
Jeff Dolven
24 John Lyly’s Galatea: Politics and Literary Allusion 381
Mike Pincombe
25 Sidney’s Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader 395
Clare R. Kinney
26 Nature and Technê in Spenser’s Faerie Queene 412
Jessica Wolfe
27 “In Poesie the mirrois of our Age”: The Countess of Pembroke’s “Sydnean” Poetics 428
Suzanne Trill
28 “Conceived of young Horatio his son”: The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge 444
Heather Hirschfeld
29 West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine 459
Kimberly Anne Coles
30 The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing 475
Mary C. Fuller
31 Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler, Tudor London, and Literary History 489
Steve Mentz
Index 504
