Patrick Cheney

English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime

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Produktbeschreibung

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781107049628
• ISBN-10: 1107049628
• Artikelnr.: 49050614

Autorenporträt

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven monographs and the editor of eleven collections, as well as the editor of poems by Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. A recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal from Pennsylvania State University and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana, Cheney has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Currently, he is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on texts and references
Illustrations
Introduction: authorship and sublimity
1. Citizenship and Godhood: a historical aesthetics of the sublime image, longinus to lyotard
2. Spenser's sublime career
3. Fictions of transport: Spenser's heroic sublime
4. Tragedy and transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's poems and plays
5. 'A world of figures': the Shakespearean sublime
6. The sublime wit of Ben Jonson
Afterword: 'the Aonian mount': sublimity, eloquence, canonicity
Works cited
Index.