
Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England
Daniel Javitch(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-691-64170-6 (ISBN)
Description
Model court conduct in the Renaissance shared many rhetorical features with poetry. Analyzing these stylistic affinities, Professor Javitch shows that the rise of the courtly ideal enhanced the status of poetic art. He suggests a new explanation for the fostering of poetic talents by courtly establishments and proposes that the court stimulated these talents more decisively than the Renaissance school. The author focuses on late Tudor England and considers how Queen Elizabeth's court helped poetry gain strength by subscribing to a code of behavior as artificial as that prescribed by Castiglione. Elizabethan writers, however, could benefit from the court's example only so long as their contemporaries continued to respect its social and moral authority. The author shows how the weakening of the courtly ideal led eventually to the poet's emergence as the maker of manners, a role first subtly indicated by Spenser in the Sixth Book of The Faerie Queene. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-64170-6 (9780691641706)
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Content
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I, pg. 18*Chapter II, pg. 50*Chapter III, pg. 76*Chapter IV, pg. 107*Chapter V, pg. 141*Index, pg. 163