The English Renaissance : identity and representation in Elizabethan England /

This book reassesses Renaissance English literature and its place in Elizabethan society. It examines, in particular, the role of Italianate literary imitation in addressing the ethical and political issues of the sixteenth century. In doing so, it reveals the significance of the Calvinist discourse...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fox, Alistair (συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Oxford UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Θέματα:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics
  • Wyatt, Surrey and the Onset of English Petrarchism
  • Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self
  • Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser, Sidney and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral
  • Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto, Tasso and The Faerie Queene
  • Appraising 'the Seeming Truths' of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare.