Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-882781-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas was the most popular and widely-imitated poet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. C. S. Lewis felt that a reconsideration of his works' British reception was 'long overdue' back in the 1950s, and this study finally provides the first comprehensive account of how English-speaking authors read, translated, imitated, and eventually discarded Du Bartas' model for Protestant poetry.

The first part shows that Du Bartas' friendship with James VI and I was key to his later popularity. Du Bartas' poetry symbolized a transnational Protestant literary culture in Huguenot France and Britain. Through James' intervention, Scottish literary tastes had a significant impact in England. Later chapters assess how Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and many other poets justified writing poetic fictions in reaction to Du Bartas' austere emphasis on scriptural truth. These chapters give equal attention to how Du Bartas' example offered a route into original verse composition for male and female poets across the literate population.

Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland responds to recent developments in transnational and translation studies, the history of reading, women's writing, religious literature, and manuscript studies. It argues that Du Bartas' legacy deserves far greater prominence than it has previously received because it offers a richer, more democratic, and more accurate view of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English, Scottish, and French literature and religious culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auger, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Introduction: The World as a Book

- Part I: A Jacobean Poet

- 2: History of a Friendship: James VI and Du Bartas

- 3: Solidarity and Compliance: Sixteenth-Century Translations

- 4: Curating the Protestant Imagination

- 5: Devine Weekes and its Readers

- Part II: Scriptural Poetry and the Self

- 6: Little Histories: Patterns for Divine Poetry I

- 7: Meditations: Patterns for Divine Poetry II

- 8: Writing for the Inner Eye

- 9: Retrospectives

- Appendix: Synopsis of the Semaines

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Auger is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. He previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, and taught at Exeter College, Oxford. His work has addressed Franco-British literary relations, translation and imitation practices, literary reception, manuscript studies, epic and religious poetry, and language learning.