Marlowe's Republican Authorship
Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime
Published on 28. November 2008
Book
Hardback
XIII, 248 pages
978-1-4039-3341-6 (ISBN)
Description
Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known iconoclastic dissidence within the historical context of Elizabethan republican thought, revealing Marlowe to be the literary pioneer of a new form of republican art.
Reviews / Votes
'A much-needed scholarly study, highlighting Marlowe's commitment to ideas of 'liberty'. Tracing the influence of republican thought from 1570s France, Netherlands and Scotland, it convincingly defines Marlowe's work as an expression of 'linguistic' and 'imaginative' republicanism, bringing his better-known texts into fruitful dialogue with unjustly overlooked works, such as the translation of Book One of Lucan's Pharsalia.' - Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield
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Series
Edition
2008
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 248 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-3341-6 (9781403933416)
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Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Person
PATRICK CHENEY is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He specializes in English Renaissance literature, and has published monographs on Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as edited collections of essays on all three.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Texts
Introduction: Was Marlowe a Republican?
Republican Representation: Marlowe, the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucan's First Book
Authorship, Freedom, and Rapture in Marlowe's Ovidian Poems
'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Empire and Liberty in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two
Machevill's Republican Monarchy: Civil War in The Jew of Malta , The Massacre at Paris, and Edward II
'To make man live eternally': The Skeptical Sublime in Doctor Faustus
Afterword: The Afterlife of Marlowe's Republican Authorship, Nashe to Milton
Works Cited
Index