Mike Rodman Jones

Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England

Strange Histories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781843846598
• ISBN-10: 1843846594
• Artikelnr.: 70899614

Autorenporträt

MIKE RODMAN JONES is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in the School of English, University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Strange Histories 1. Forms of Civic Medievalism in the 1590s
2. Polemic, Citation, Satire or Chaucer the Puritan 3. Chaucer on Grub
Street or The medievalist moment of Elizabethan prose fiction, c. 1590 4.
The Medievalism of Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton 5. Remembering the
Reformation: The late Elizabethan and early Jacobean 'Reformation History
Play' Postscript - 'In Diebus Illis': Medieval poets, debating breeches,
and the (proto) Creation of Medievalism