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'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era
From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status. Was it just a matter of speaking lies to power? The present study looks beyond the rhetoric of dedication to examine how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange were forced to compete with those of the marketplace. It demonstrates how awareness of such divergent milieux prompted innovative modes of authorial self-representation, inspired or frustrated the desire for laureation, and promoted the remarkable self-reflexivity of early modern verse. By setting English literature from Caxton to Jonson in the context of the most influential Classical and Italian exemplars it affords a wide comparative context for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.
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'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era
From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status. Was it just a matter of speaking lies to power? The present study looks beyond the rhetoric of dedication to examine how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange were forced to compete with those of the marketplace. It demonstrates how awareness of such divergent milieux prompted innovative modes of authorial self-representation, inspired or frustrated the desire for laureation, and promoted the remarkable self-reflexivity of early modern verse. By setting English literature from Caxton to Jonson in the context of the most influential Classical and Italian exemplars it affords a wide comparative context for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.
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'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

by Richard McCabe
'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

'Ungainefull Arte': Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era

by Richard McCabe

Overview

From antiquity to the Renaissance the pursuit of patronage was central to the literary career, yet relationships between poets and patrons were commonly conflicted, if not antagonistic, necessitating compromise even as they proffered stability and status. Was it just a matter of speaking lies to power? The present study looks beyond the rhetoric of dedication to examine how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange were forced to compete with those of the marketplace. It demonstrates how awareness of such divergent milieux prompted innovative modes of authorial self-representation, inspired or frustrated the desire for laureation, and promoted the remarkable self-reflexivity of early modern verse. By setting English literature from Caxton to Jonson in the context of the most influential Classical and Italian exemplars it affords a wide comparative context for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198716525
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/04/2016
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Richard McCabe is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and held a Major Leverhuleme Fellowship from 2011 to 2014. He is author of Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation, The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerie Queene,' Incest, Drama, and Nature's Law 1550-1700, and Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference. He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Spenser's Shorter Poems and The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE1. Of Followers and Friends: Problems of Definition2. Visions of Laurel: Classical Exemplars3. The Arts of Magnificence: Early Modern Exemplars4. Economies of Script and Print5. The Rhetoric of Paratexts6. The Protocols of PresentationPART TWO: ITALIAN LITERARY PATRONAGE7. Petrarch: The Renaissance of Patronage8. Ariosto: Laureate or Poligrafo? 9. Tasso: Patronage and ImprisonmentPART THREE: ENGLISH LITERARY PATRONAGE, 1500-162510. Print and Patronage in the Early Tudor Age11. Elizabeth I and Court Patronage12. Courts and Coteries13. The Elizabethan Marketplace14. Career Trajectories15. Egerton: A Patron's 'Canon'16. The Courts of King James and Prince Henry17. Conclusion: Laurels Won and LostBibliography
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