Jacobean Poetry and Prose
Rhetoric, Representation and the Popular Imagination
Published on 17. November 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-333-46538-7 (ISBN)
Description
Combining a comprehensive range of literary approaches (Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist) the eleven essays presented here investigate selected aspects of the richly diverse culture of the early seventeenth century.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46538-7 (9780333465387)
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Authority, Text and the Jacobean Mind; C.Bloom - Open and Closed Books: a Semiotic Approach to the History of Jacobean Popular Romance; J.Simons - Nashe, Rhetoric and Satire; N.Rhodes - The Luck of the English; V.Pitt - The Borders and their Ballads; S.Knight - The Poetry of John Donne: Literature, History and Ideology; W.Zunder - Donnes' Masculine Persuasive Force; H.Carr - 'In Love with Curious Words': Signification and Sexuality in English Petrarchism; M.Evans - The White Devil and the Fair Woman with a Black Soul; S.Freedman - A King and no King: Monarchy and Royalty as Discourse in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; R.Giddings - Masques and Murderers: Dramatic Method and Ideology in Revenge Tragedy and the Court Masque; D.Grantley - All about Eve: Woman in Paradise Lost; J.Simons - Selected Bibliography; M.Shakeshaft - Notes - Index