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Patrons and patron saints in early modern English literature /
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135132323 1135132321 0203077547 9780203077542 9781283972680 1283972689 |