Jane Rickard

Authorship and authority

The writings of James VI and I

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

King James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance as patron and author. This book explores the full range of these extensive writings, which include poetry, scriptural exegeses and political treatises, in the contexts of their production and reception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087790
• ISBN-10: 0719087791
• Artikelnr.: 35492777

Autorenporträt

Jane Rickard is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reading James VI and I 1. Constructing the Writer-King: the
early poetry 2. The word of God and the word of the King: the early
scriptural exegeses 3. Print, authority, interpretation: the major prose
works 4. Monumentalising the royal author: The Workes (1616) 5. The late
poetry and the deconstruction of authority Afterword Bibliography Index