Stewart Mottram

Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell

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Produktbeschreibung

The first major study to explore the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries and other acts of reformation violence on the literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198836384
• ISBN-10: 0198836384
• Artikelnr.: 55578164

Autorenporträt

Stewart Mottram writes on representations of ruin and religious violence across English literature of the long reformation, with particular interests in Edmund Spenser and Andrew Marvell. He has held Leverhulme and AHRC Early Career Fellowships at Aberystwyth and Hull, was appointed to his current post at Hull in 2010, and has also previously taught at the University of Leeds and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is author of Empire and Nation in early English Renaissance literature (2008), co-editor of the essay collection, Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (2012), and has published widely on reformation themes in early modern literature, in journals including Spenser Studies and The Seventeenth Century. He is author of the Oxford Bibliographies entry for Andrew Marvell.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. Ruin and Reformation: The past as prologue
* 1: Spenser, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the decline of
the preacher's plough
* 2: Wondering at ruins: Vallans, Spenser, and the reformation of St
Alban
* 3: Warriors and ruins: Loyalism, rebellion, and recusancy in
Cymbeline's Wales
* 4: 'Where ruine must reforme?' John Denham's Coopers Hill (1642)
* 5: Cloistered virtue: Nun Appleton priory and presbyterianism in
Marvell's Upon Appleton House (1651)
* Conclusion