Defending literature in early modern England : Renaissance literary theory in social context /

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Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations particularly affecting the aristocracy. Alongside revisionary accounts of the work of Elyot, Sidney and Spenser, this original study engages with important theoretical work such as Pierre B...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Matz, Robert
Format: Publication officielle Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Collection:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 37.
Sujets:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Social change > England > History > 16th century.
Criticism > England > History > 16th century.
Social change in literature.
Renaissance > England.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Critique > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Literature and society
Renaissance
Social change
Social change in literature
Literaturtheorie
Literatuurtheorie.
Sociale verandering.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : "aut prodesse ... aut delectare"
  • Recreating reading : Elyot's Boke named the governour
  • Heroic diversions : Sidney's Defence of poetry
  • A "gentle discipline" : Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Epilogue : from text to work?

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