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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830072203321

Titolo

A companion to Tudor literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kent Cartwright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-78268-725-4

1-282-49118-0

9786612491184

1-4051-9712-9

1-4443-1721-0

1-4443-1722-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (570 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

CartwrightKent <1943->

Disciplina

820.9002

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Great Britain Civilization 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Tudor Literature; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chronology, 1485-1603; Map of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the sixteenth century; Introduction; Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts; 1: The Reformation, Lollardy, and Catholicism; 2: Witchcraft in Tudor England and Scotland; 3: The Tudor Experience of Islam; 4: Protestantism, Profit, and Politics: Tudor Representations of the New World; 5: International Influences and Tudor Music; 6: Tudor Technology in Transition; 7: Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin; Part II: Manuscript, Print, and Letters

8: Manuscripts in Tudor England9: John Skelton and the State of Letters; 10: The Henrician Courtier Writing in Manuscript and Print: Wyatt, Surrey, Bryan, and Others; 11: Old Authors, Women Writers, and the New Print Technology; 12: Printers of Interludes; Part III: Literary Origins, Presences, Absences; 13: Medievalism in English Renaissance Literature; 14: The Tudor Origins of Medieval Drama; 15: French Presences in Tudor England; 16: Italian in Tudor England: Why Couldn't a Woman Be More Like a Man?; Part IV: Authors, Works, and Modes; 17:



More's Utopia: Medievalism and Radicalism

18: The Literary Voices of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew19: Reformation Satire, Scatology, and Iconoclastic Aesthetics in Gammer Gurton's Needle; 20: Bad Fun and Tudor Laughter; 21: Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance; 22: Seeing through Words in Theories of Poetry: Sidney, Puttenham, Lodge; 23: Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter; 24: John Lyly's Galatea : Politics and Literary Allusion; 25: Sidney's Arcadia , Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader; 26: Nature and TechneĢ‚ in Spenser's Faerie Queene

27: "In Poesie the mirrois of our Age": The Countess of Pembroke's "Sydnean" Poetics28: "Conceived of young Horatio his son": The Spanish Tragedy and the Psychotheology of Revenge; 29: West of England: The Irish Specter in Tamburlaine; 30: The Real and the Unreal in Tudor Travel Writing; 31: Jack and the City: The Unfortunate Traveler , Tudor London, and Literary History; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A 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. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the periodDiscusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women's writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seein