The Shepheard's Nation

Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture 1612-1625
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-818638-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

This is a study of a group of Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke, and of the ways in which these writers represented themselves as a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625. This Spenserian community had its social basis in the culture of early modern London and was given physical expression through the practice of collaboration and an innovative use of print. Yet, it was also an 'imagined community' expressed through fictions that drew on common literary and political traditions. The result was a type of literary commonwealth that claimed the authority to engage in public debate on issues of politics and culture. By drawing attention to the relationships between writers and the traditions and environments that enable textual communities, this book provides a new perspective for studying early modern culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Callaghan, Michelle

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- The 'shepheard's nation': William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe (1614) and George Wither, The Shepherd's Hunting (1615)

- Tyranny, Parliament, and the 'Country': Christopher Brooke's The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614)

- 'Thus deare Britannia will I sing of thee': William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals

- George Wither, Citizen Prophet

- The 'Evill Time': Spenserian Community in the 1620s

- Conclusion

- Appendices

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Senior Lecturer, English Department, Nene University College, Northampton