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Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII : literary culture and the arts of deceit /

This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern cour...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Pretexts: Chaucer's Pandarus and the origins of courtly discourse
  • 2. The King's Pandars: performing courtiership in the 1510s
  • 3. The King's hand: body politics in the letters of Henry VIII
  • 4. Private quotations, public memories: Troilus and Criseyde and the politics of the manuscript anthology
  • 5. Wyatt, Chaucer, Tottel: the verse epistle and the subjects of the courtly lyric.