Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England

by Cedric C. Brown (Editor), Arthur F. Marotti (Editor)

Overview

This is a wide-ranging, closely-researched collection, written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, on the cultural placement and transmission of texts between 1520 and 1750. Material and historical conditions of texts are analysed, and the range of works is wide, including plays and the Lucrece of Shakespeare (with adaptations, and a discussion of 'reading' playtexts), Sidney's Arcadia, Greene's popular Pandosto (both discussed in the contexts of changing readerships and forms of fiction), Hakluyt's travel books, funerary verse, and the writings of Katherine Parr and Elizabethan Catholic martyrs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349259960
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History
Edition description:	1st ed. 1997
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Complications of Intertextuality: John Fisher, Katherine Parr, and 'The Book of the Crucifix'; J.Mueller - Southwell's Remains: Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England; A.F.Marotti - 'A Very Good Trumpet': Richard Hakluyt and the Politics of Overseas Expansion; P.Neville-Sington - Sidney's Arcadia as Cultural Monument and Proto-Novel; P.Lindenbaum - The Triumph of Time: the Fortunate Readers of Robert Greene's Pandosto; L.Humphrey Newcomb - Editing Sexuality, Narrative, and Authorship: The Altered Texts of Shakespeare's Lucrece; S.Roberts - The Birth of the Author; R.Dutton - Mending and Bending the Occasional Text: Collegiate Elegies and the Case of 'Lycidas'; C.C.Brown - Between the 'Triumvirate of Wit' and the Bard: the English Dramatic Canon, 1660-1720; P.Kewes - Friends or Lovers: Sensitivity to Homosexual Implications in Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1640-1701; P.Hammond - Index

Editorial Reviews

Eight original essays and two revised from previous publication explore the cultural placement and transmission of texts between about 1520 and 1750, paying special attention to canon formation, readerships, and the material form of books. Sidney's , Shakespeare's , and Greene's are among the better known works discussed. The topics include religious determinism in Katherine Parr, the politics of Hakluyt's travel writing, reading and performing texts of plays, and communal functions in elegies of Milton and Cowley. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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