Barbarous Antiquity : Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England /

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Barbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Miriam Emma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English poetry > Early modern.
English literature > Foreign influences.
English literature > Classical influences.
Commercial products in literature.
Commerce.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Commerce > Terminologie.
Produits commerciaux dans la litterature.
Anglais (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Diction.
Commerce > Terminology.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Diction.
Middle East.
Great Britain.
Great Britain > Commerce > Middle East.
Middle East > Commerce > Great Britain.
Terminology.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Trafficking with antiquity: trade, poetry, and remediation
  • Strange language: imported words in Johnson's Ars Poetica
  • Shaping subtlety: sugar in The Arte of English Poesie
  • Publishing pain: zero in The Rape of Lucrece
  • Breeding fame: horses and bulbs in Venus and Adonis
  • On Chapman crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: pearls, dyes, and ink in Hero and Leander
  • Epilogue: The peregrinations of barbarous antiquity.

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