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Book SynopsisRoston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the
Trade Review" ... a model of scholarship and literary grace."--John Mulryan, Cithara "Without question, this book is stimulating in its approach and subject matter, and I strongly recommend it for the libraries of interdisciplinarian and Renaissance enthusiasts and scholars."--Richard Studing, Seventeenth-Century News
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER I. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury, pg. 13*CHAPTER 2. Hierarchy in the Mystery Plays, pg. 63*CHAPTER 3. The Ideal and the Real, pg. 101*CHAPTER 4. Spenser and the Pagan Gods, pg. 143*CHAPTER 5. A Kingdom for a Stage, pg. 193*CHAPTER 6. Shakespeare's Artistic Allegiance, pg. 239*CHAPTER 7. Varieties of Seventeenth-Century Prose, pg. 279*CHAPTER 8. The World as Anagram: The Poetry of George Herbert, pg. 301*NOTES, pg. 343*INDEX, pg. 369
