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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Little, Katherine C., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Medieval traditions of writing rural labor
  • The invention of the English eclogue
  • The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism
  • Transforming work : the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition
  • Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor
  • Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Afterword : The secret history of pastoral.