Redefining Elizabethan Literature

ISBN-13: 9780521831239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 270 str.

Cambridge) Georgia Brown (Queens' College

Opis

Exploring one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s, Georgia Brown focuses on the changing perceptions of the aesthetic. Brown reveals how the period's obsession with shame was expressed in fragmentary and marginal literary forms such as the sonnet sequence, epyllion and complaint. Combining theoretical perspectives with structural analysis, she studies the historical and ideological forces inscribed in rhetorical and formal developments.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: ' … thought-provoking and challenging book … well-documented; it offers a precise reading of most of the contemporary critical essays … it challenges one's desire to contradict her even while admitting that she can be enticingly convincing … elegantly written … stimulating, worthwhile read.' Cahiers Elizabéthains

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship; 3. Literature as fetish; 4. Shame and the subject of history; Epilogue; Bibliography.