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Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry /
Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Reformations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor. The author offers a literary history for the pastoral, arguing that the authors of the first English pastorals used rural laborers familiar from medieval texts -- plowmen and shepherds -- to reflect on the social, economic, and religious disruptions of the sixteenth century. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0268085706 9780268085704 9780268085902 0268085900 |