Description
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
