Reading Literature Historically - Walker, Greg
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'This volume seems particularly timely in emphasising the users of culture, whether they are readers or spectators. A landmark for negotiated interdisciplinarity.' John J. McGavin, University of Southampton 'A welcome contribution to the important debate on the role of the literary in historical and socio-political scholarly analyses.' Elaine Treharne, Stanford University A pioneer of early-modern literary historicism reads Medieval and early Tudor drama and poetry historically How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such…mehr

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'This volume seems particularly timely in emphasising the users of culture, whether they are readers or spectators. A landmark for negotiated interdisciplinarity.' John J. McGavin, University of Southampton 'A welcome contribution to the important debate on the role of the literary in historical and socio-political scholarly analyses.' Elaine Treharne, Stanford University A pioneer of early-modern literary historicism reads Medieval and early Tudor drama and poetry historically How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere 'secondary sources' for historical analysis? This book makes the case for the study of literature in context. It demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them. It equally accepts the risks involved in that kind of study. Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on the literature, drama and history of the late medieval and Tudor periods and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, The English Association and The Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Council of the AHRC, and a former Chair of the Council for College and University English. Cover image: Party at Haddon Hall (unnamed artist) (c) Mary Evans Picture Library. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
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Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Among his publications are John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (Cambridge UP, 1988, pbk, 2002), Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics at the Court of Henry VIII (CUP, 1991, pbk, 2009.), The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama (CUP, 1998, pbk, 2006), Medieval Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, pbk, 2000), Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) (I.B. Tauris, 2003), Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford UP, 2005, pbk and on-line editions, 2007), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (co-edited with E.M. Treharne, OUP, 2010), The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama (co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, OUP, 2012), and over fifty articles and essays in journals and edited collections.