04823nam 2200769 450 991046575810332120210427023643.00-8122-9007-010.9783/9780812290073(CKB)3710000000226675(OCoLC)891383634(CaPaEBR)ebrary10915855(SSID)ssj0001335389(PQKBManifestationID)11723536(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335389(PQKBWorkID)11273104(PQKB)11507100(MiAaPQ)EBC3442409(OCoLC)891157744(MdBmJHUP)muse35441(DE-B1597)449875(DE-B1597)9780812290073(Au-PeEL)EBL3442409(CaPaEBR)ebr10915855(CaONFJC)MIL682527(EXLCZ)99371000000022667520140902h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBarbarous antiquity reorienting the past in the poetry of early modern England /Miriam Jacobson1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (297 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51245-0 0-8122-4632-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction. Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation --Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson’s Ars Poetica --Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie --Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece --Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis --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 --AcknowledgmentsIn the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.English poetryEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700DictionEnglish literatureClassical influencesEnglish literatureForeign influencesCommerceTerminologyCommercial products in literatureGreat BritainCommerceMiddle EastMiddle EastCommerceGreat BritainElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.English languageDiction.English literatureClassical influences.English literatureForeign influences.CommerceCommercial products in literature.821/.309357Jacobson Miriam Emma1028275MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465758103321Barbarous antiquity2444225UNINA