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James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines thorough description of the genre's history and conventions with consideration of the rootedness of individual epigrams within specific social, political and religious contexts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The classical, Medieval and Renaissance inheritance
2. 'A Curter kind of Satyre'? The epigram, proximate genres and terminology
3. The contexts of epigram composition
4. Buzzed, scrawled and printed: composition and circulation of topical epigrams
5. Epigrams in manuscript
6. Epigrams in print
7. Authorship
8. The readers of printed epigram books
9. Two facets of the epigram: names and responsiveness
10. The epigram and political comment
11. The feigned epitaph
12. The religious epigram
Coda: Harington's 'Of Moyses'
Select bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719096440, 978-0719096440
      ISBN10: 0719096448

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines thorough description of the genre's history and conventions with consideration of the rootedness of individual epigrams within specific social, political and religious contexts.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. The classical, Medieval and Renaissance inheritance
      2. 'A Curter kind of Satyre'? The epigram, proximate genres and terminology
      3. The contexts of epigram composition
      4. Buzzed, scrawled and printed: composition and circulation of topical epigrams
      5. Epigrams in manuscript
      6. Epigrams in print
      7. Authorship
      8. The readers of printed epigram books
      9. Two facets of the epigram: names and responsiveness
      10. The epigram and political comment
      11. The feigned epitaph
      12. The religious epigram
      Coda: Harington's 'Of Moyses'
      Select bibliography
      Index

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