Greg Walker

Writing Under Tyranny

English Literature and the Henrician Reformation

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 971g
• ISBN-13: 9780199283330
• ISBN-10: 0199283338
• Artikelnr.: 22175643

Autorenporträt

Greg Walker is Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry
VIII's England
* Poetry and the Culture of Counsel: The 1532 Workes of Geffray Chaucer
and John Heywood's Play of the Wether
* 2: A Gift for Henry VIII
* 3: The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early
1530s
* 4: Reading Chaucer in 1532
* 5: Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha
* 6: Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's Play
of the Wether
* 'To Virtue Persuaded'?: The Persistent Counsels of Sir Thomas Elyot
* 7: Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter
* 8: The Boke Named the Governor: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy
* 9: Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34
* 10: From Supremacy to Tyranny
* 11: The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot
* The Death of Counsel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey
* 12: Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics
* 13: Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires
* 14: Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence'
* 15: Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms
* 16: 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of
Resistance
* 17: Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of
English Poetry