Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England
Published on 6. February 2001
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-8262-1317-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays, the authors attempt to explain literary circles and cultural communities in Renaissance England by exploring both actual and imaginary ways in which they were conceived and the various needs they fulfilled. The text also pays considerable attention to larger theoretical issues relating to literary circles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Missouri
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8262-1317-4 (9780826213174)
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Content
Of circles, friendship and the imperatives of literary history, Judith Scherer Herz; ""Like a Spyed Spie"" - Donne's baiting of Marlowe, Thomas Hester; ""To all Vertuous Ladies in General"" - Aemelia Lanyer's community of strong women, Sharon Cadman Seelig; the invention of the literary circle of Sir Thomas Overbury, John Considine; ""This Art will Live"" - social and literary responses to Ben Jonson's ""The New Inn"", Robert C. Evans; Newcastle's ghosts - Robert Payne, Ben Jonson and ""The Cavendish Circle"", Timothy Raylor; reading poets reading poets - Herbert and Crashaw's literary ellipse, Paul A. Parrish; a space for academic recreation - Milton's proposal in ""The Reason of Church Government"", Anna K. Nardo; Thomas Stanley and ""A Register of Friends"", Stella P. Revard; community and social order in the Great Tew Circle, P.G. Stanwood; ""The Great Difference of Time"" - the Great Tew Circle and the emergence of the neoclassical mode, M.L. Donnelly; conversation, conversion, Messianic redemption - Magaret Fell, Menasseh ben Israel and the Jews, Achsah Guibbory.