Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415656849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 254 str.

Alison Chapman

Opis

In the pre-modern world saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word 'patron' used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Alison Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Patrons of Heaven and Earth Chapter 2: National Saints and The Faerie Queene Chapter 3: Jonson’s Hagiographic Parody Chapter 4: Saints, Guilds, and Players in Shakespeare’s Histories Chapter 5: Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the Genii Loci Chapter 6: Donne’s Hagiographic Tolerance Chapter 7: Milton and the Border Saints Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Alison Chapman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, US.