Writing Under Tyranny

English Literature and the Henrician Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928333-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1016 g

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally
resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production of late-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of
writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance.

Zielgruppe

Medieval and Renaissance literary scholars. Historian of Early-Modern Britain. Advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in literature and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Walker is Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester.