A Companion to Renaissance Poetry

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520 1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in–depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non–dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. Covers a wide selection of authors and texts Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period. INDICE: Notes on Contributors ix .Preface xvii .Acknowledgments xx .Part I Contexts 1 .Transitions and Translations 3 .1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer .2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron .3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn Enterline .Religions and Reformations 50 .4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar .5 A sweetness ready penn d ?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz Monta .Authorships and Authorities 78 .6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti .7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson .8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski .9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall .10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the Religious Poet 141Jonathan Crewe .Defenses and Definitions 154 .11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz .12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein .13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick Cheney .Part II Forms and Genres 199 .Epic and Epyllion 201 .14 Edmund Spenser s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey .15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein .16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller .17 The Epyllion 239Jim Ellis .Lyric 250 .18 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden .19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis .20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates .21 I am lunaticke : Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic ]Schwartz .22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley .23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll .24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe Pugh .Complaint and Elegy 339 .25 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross .26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea Brady .Epistolary and Dialogic Forms 365 .27 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton .28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse Conversations 376Cathy Shrank .Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 389 .29 Verse Satire 389Michelle O Callaghan .30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson .31 Digging into Veritable Dunghills : Re ]appreciating .Renaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia Fumerton .Religious Poetry 432 .32 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp .33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin .34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen Wilcox .Part III Positions and Debates 471 .35 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley .36 Chorography, Map ]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield .37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana .38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy ]Bray .39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor .40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt .41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth .42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe .43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy .44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier .45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris .46 The Sublime 611Patrick Cheney .Index 628

• ISBN: 978-1-118-58519-1
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 680
• Fecha Publicación: 16/02/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés