Redefining Elizabethan Literature
$48.99 (C)
- Author: Georgia Brown, Queens' College, Cambridge
- Date Published: November 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521122894
$
48.99
(C)
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an examination copy?
This title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
Exploring one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s, Georgia Brown focuses on the changing perceptions of the aesthetic. Brown reveals how the period's obsession with shame was expressed in fragmentary and marginal literary forms such as the sonnet sequence, epyllion and complaint. Combining theoretical perspectives with structural analysis, she studies the historical and ideological forces inscribed in rhetorical and formal developments.
Read more- A thorough study of how definitions of 'literature' were developed in the 1590s
- A comprehensive examination of the generation of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Donne and Jonson and their attitudes to authorship
- Brown studies marginal forms and the theme of shame to illuminate the period and its works
Reviews & endorsements
"The bibliography is substantial, and the thorough notes appear as footnotes rather than as endnotes, which is a delight." CHOICE
See more reviews"Engages energetically--and sometimes impressively--with both the primary and secondary literatures of the last decade of the sixteenth century." -Gordon Braden, University of Virginia
"Brown has written an admirably intelligent and sensitive book that should be of great interest to anyone studying or teaching Elizabethan literature and culture." Renaissance Quarterly Judith Haber, Tufts University
"Brown's complex, smart analytical prose and the discussion's internal cohesiveness result in a provocative new reading of late Elizabethan culture and the Elizabethans' own definition -- or if Brown is correct, redefinition--of literary value." - Wayne A. Chandler, Northwest Missouri State University
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: November 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521122894
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship
3. Literature as fetish
4. Shame and the subject of history
Epilogue
Bibliography.
Related Books
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×