Douglas S Pfeiffer

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts

The Force of Character

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Produktbeschreibung

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 135mm x 119mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780198714163
• ISBN-10: 0198714165
• Artikelnr.: 59479592

Autorenporträt

Douglas S. Pfeiffer is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from Columbia University's English and Comparative Literature Department and has taught at Columbia, Barnard College, The Cooper Union, and The University of California, Irvine. His research centers on Renaissance humanism, history of the book, and early modern poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Style and the Man
* 1: How to Judge a Book by its Author
* 2: The Peopling of Valla's De falso (1440): Character Fiction at the
Origin of Modern Philology
* 3: Erasmus's Vita Hieronymi (1516): Taking Editorial Work Personally
* 4: Gascoigne's Wandering 'I' in A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) and
The Posies (1575)
* 5: Fulke Greville Speaks to the Dead in A Dedication to Sir Philip
Sidney (1614)
* Epilogue: Biographism as Close Reading in Shakespeare's Sonnet 76
(1609) and Machiavelli's 'Letter to Vettori' (1513)