Redefining Elizabethan literature /

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Author / Creator:Brown, Georgia (Georgia E.)
Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)
Language:English
Subject:English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Authorship -- History -- 16th century.
Shame in literature.
Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc.
Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Art d'écrire -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Honte dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship.
English literature -- Early modern.
Historiography.
Intellectual life.
Literature and history.
Shame in literature.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Auteurschap.
Schaamte.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Historiography.
England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1558-1603 (Élisabeth Ire) -- Historiographie.
Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812659
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ISBN:9780511265983
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0511483465
9780521831239
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s. Georgia Brown analyses the period's obsession with shame as both a literary theme and a conscious authorial position. She explores the related obsession of this generation of authors with fragmentary and marginal forms of expression, such as the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence, and complaint. Combining developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts light on the wholesale eroticisation of Elizabethan literary culture, the form and meaning of Englishness, the function of gender and sexuality in establishing literary authority, and the contexts of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney. This study will be of great interest to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as cultural history and gender studies.
Other form:Print version: Brown, Georgia (Georgia E.). Redefining Elizabethan literature. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge, 2004 0521831237 9780521831239