Redefining Elizabethan Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-83123-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

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 recent developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts new 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Georgia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship; 3. Literature as fetish; 4. Shame and the subject of history; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Georgia
Georgia Brown was a lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Queens' College, Cambridge. She has lectured at universities in Greece, Switzerland, Poland and the United States, and has published essays on Marlowe, Spenser, Queen Elizabeth I, Renaissance embroidery, and teaching the epyllion.