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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      17 November 2009
      07 August 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582004
      9780521590013
      9780521035279
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582004
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.416kg, 272 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (18)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (18)
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    This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction of subjectivity.

    Reviews

    "...Lerer has written an elegant book. His chapters are grounded in close readings of literary texts, and he has presented a nuanced, challenging argument in well-turned phrases free of theoretical jargon." Mary Hill Cole, Mary Baldwin College

    "Lerer's is one of the most impressive of the volumes I've read." Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books

    "Lerer also offers some strong readings, especially of King Henry's love letters. And he comments well on manuscript collections of verse. This book belongs in libraries supporting graduate work in English literature and history." E.D. Hill, Choice

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