Writing After Sidney - Alexander, Gavin
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Examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the "Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella", and "The Defence of Poesy", and the influential writer of the Elizabethan period. This book aims to come to a better understanding of the nature of Sidney's impact on the literature of the fifty or so years after his death in 1586.
This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the "Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella", and "The Defence of Poesy", and the influential writer of the Elizabethan period. This book aims to come to a better understanding of the nature of Sidney's impact on the literature of the fifty or so years after his death in 1586.
This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth.
Autorenporträt
Gavin Alexander was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was subsequently a Research Fellow. He is currently a Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Librarian, and Director of Studies in English at Christ's College. He has published on various literary and musical topics, and is the editor of Sidney's The Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (Penguin, 2004).