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Autore: | Bellamy Elizabeth J (Elizabeth Jane) |
Titolo: | Dire straits : the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton / / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2013 |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.30932146 |
Soggetto topico: | English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Coasts in literature | |
Cartography in literature | |
Landscapes in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | England In literature |
Note generali: | 5 Coda : Exiting the Shadow of Ultima Britannia in Paradise Lost. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1 The Imperatives of Humanism: Early Modern English Shorelines under Quarantine. 1 Spectral Geographies and the Coastline -- 2 From Anachronism to Belatedness: Medieval English Coastlines before Humanism -- 3 Philautus's Nausea -- 4 'Profounde' Navigators, 'Vnlettered' Coasters, and the Fortunate Isles -- 5 Antiquity's Apeiron -- 6 Poetry and Place, Time and Tide, and Coasts 'with no measures grac'd' |
2 Lurid Shorelines: Mapping Spenser's Queen Elizabeth in Ariosto's Hebrides. 1 'compassed with one Sea' -- 2 Poet, Royal Patron, Ultima Britannia -- 3 The Turn to Literary History: Mapping Spenser's Faerie Seacoast via Ariosto -- 4 Cymoent's Lyrical Mediterranean, Marinell's Terror-Coast -- 5 Local Rivers, Local Shores in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe -- 6 Prophecy as Slander: Britomart's Thames, Paridell's Briton Seacoast -- 7 North by Northwest: Ariosto's Ptolemaic Hebrides -- 8 Reading Spenser Reading Ariosto's Hebrides. | |
3 Ever-Receding Shorelines: Antiquarian Poetry and Prose and the Limits of Shakespeare's Coastal Dramatic Verse. 1 Antiquarianism at the Water's Edge -- 2 Shakespeare's Coastal Legerdemain -- 3 From Henry IV to Henry V : Chorographic Nationalism and Coastal Provinciality -- 4 Antiquarianism's Paradoxical Embrace of Ultima Britannia -- 5 Cymbeline's Irreconcilable Shorelines -- 6 Of 'swan's nests, ' River Poetry, and Antiquarian Prose, 1545-1610 -- 7 Losing Perspective on the Ever-Receding Rocky Coast. | |
4 Exiled Shorelines: Early Milton and the Rejection of the Mare Ovidianum. 1 'Love your Naso's name ... -- 2 Poetry, Place, and the Mare Ovidianum -- 3 Tomitan Ovid: Writing a Pontic Epic on the Apeiron -- 4 Rejecting the Pose of Ovidian Exile -- 5 'At last he twitch't his mantle': Lycidas and Milton's 'Writing' of Local Coastlines -- 6 The Londini Milto, Mansus, and the Thames -- 7 Milton, Horace, and Ovid in Geneva. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dire straits |
ISBN: | 1-4426-6391-X |
1-4426-9424-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811192803321 |
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