Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
(Sprache: Englisch)
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship
between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
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A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship
between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
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This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions between democracy and the imagination which persist throughout the century. Part One establishes a social dimension for literary culture in the period by exploring the associations of 'commonwealth' and related terms. It addresses the role of Greek in the period before and during the Reformation in disturbing the old binary of elite Latin and common English. It also argues that the Reformation principle of making common is coupled with a hostility towards fiction, which has the effect of closing down the humanist renaissance of the earlier decades. Part Two presents translation as the link between Reformation and Renaissance, and the final part discusses the Elizabethan literary renaissance and deals in turn with poetry, short prose fiction, and the drama written for the common stage.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England “
- PART ONE
- 1: Versions of the Common
- 2: Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England
- 3: Literature in Crisis
- Preface
- PART TWO
- 4: Translating for the Commonwealth
- PART THREE
- 5: Of Reformed Versifying
- 6: Vulgar Italian and the Elizabethan Short Story
- 7: The Common Stage
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Neil Rhodes
Neil Rhodes was a Scholar of St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. His publications include English Renaissance Translation Theory (2013), Shakespeare and the Origins of English (2004) and, with Jonathan Sawday, The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000). His first book, Elizabethan Grotesque (1980), was reissued in 2015. He is co-General Editor with Andrew Hadfield of the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations and is a visiting professor at the University of Granada and Liverpool Hope University. He is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Neil Rhodes
- 2018, 360 Seiten, Maße: 16,6 x 23,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198704100
- ISBN-13: 9780198704102
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[...] this is an extraordinary study. Without denying or side-lining the social and economic dimensions, Rhodes sets out to tell a distinctively literary story about Tudor English culture. He covers an enormous range of materials from disparate periods, yet rarely sounds like anything but an expert. [...] his treatment of it will resonate with the impression of many literary critics that something special happened in the final decades of the sixteenth century. Beth Quitslund, the Spenser Review
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