Robert E. Stillman

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a fresh interpretation of Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, Robert E. Stillman's intellectually ambitious study challenges traditional scholarship by identifying the impact of his education by the followers of Philip Melanchthon-the so-called Philippists-on his poetics, piety, and politics. Sidney created the first Renaissance text to argue for poetry's pre-eminence as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain, and its consequent power to promote cultural reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317081227
• Artikelnr.: 49351289

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Stillman is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Précis of the Argument
Acknowledgments
Introduction Poetry and the Public Domain
Chapter 1 "Famous preachers and teachers": Mediating the Cause
Chapter 2 The "noblest scope": Reading, Writing, and Early Modern Poetics
Chapter 3 "The enjoying of his own divine essence": Poetry and Piety
Chapter 4 "Captived to the truth of a foolish world": Poetry and the Politics of Tyranny
Conclusion Reproducing Cyrus: The Defence of Poesy and a Cosmopolitan Culture of BooksReproducing Cyrus: The Defence of Poesy and a Cosmopolitan Culture of Books