Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623: Volume 1 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Poole, Kristen

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Produktbeschreibung

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, England grew from a marginal to a major European power, established overseas settlements, and negotiated the Protestant Reformation. The population burgeoned and became increasingly urban. England also saw the meteoric rise of commercial theatre in London, the creation of a vigorous market for printed texts, and the emergence of writing as a viable profession. Literacy rates exploded, and an increasingly diverse audience encountered a profusion of new textual forms. Media, and literary culture, transformed on a scale that would not happen again until television and the Internet. The twenty innovative contributions in Gathering Force: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1557-1623 trace ways that five different genres both spurred and responded to change. Chapters explore different facets of lyric poetry, romance, commercial drama, masques and pageants, and non-narrative prose. Exciting and accessible, this volume illuminates the dynamic relationships among the period's social, political, and literary transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108321792
• Artikelnr.: 55006077

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Generic Transitions: 1. The English sonnet: cycles and recycling
Catherine Bates; 2. Romance: traditions and innovations Kenneth Borris; 3.
Drama: forming an audience Lois Potter; 4. Pageants, masques, and
entertainments: old rituals, new forms Lauren Shohet; 5. Arts of rhetoric:
antique and modern Jenny C. Mann; Part II. Literature and Ideological
Transformation: 6. Lyric and spiritualism: John Donne's 'The Ecstasy'
Douglas Trevor; 7. Romance and the boundaries of genre and gender Andrew
Hadfield; 8. Drama and globalization in early modern England Daniel J.
Vitkus; 9. The court masque: art and politics Peter Holbrook; 10. Prose,
science, and scripture: Francis Bacon's sacred texts Katherine Bootle
Attié; Part III. Literature and Cultural Transformation: 11. Lyric and
scientific epistemologies: Bacon and Donne Liza Blake; 12. Romance and the
early modern cultures of the book Sarah Wall-Randell; 13. Drama and
commodity culture in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Bradley D. Ryner; 14.
Pageantry and politics: the anxiety of arrival Tom Bishop; 15. Prose and
the public sphere David Colclough; Part IV. Literature and Local
Transformation: 16. 'Hard to meter well': psalms and early modern English
poetry Lucía Martínez Valdivia; 17. Romance, magical space, and Wroth's
Urania Sheila Cavanagh; 18. Drama and the playhouse Lucy Munro; 19. Greek
tragedy on the university stage: Buchanan and Euripides Hannah Crawforth
and Lucy Jackson; 20. Prose and the pulpit Lori Anne Ferrell.