The Historical Renaissance
New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture
9780226167664
The Historical Renaissance
New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture
The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this collection. Rather than merely providing a sampler of any single critical movement, The Historical Renaissance represents the range of ways scholars and critics are fusing what many would once have distinguished as "literary" and "historical" concerns
The volume includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
The volume includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and Stuart periods.
The scope of the collection is also manifest in its list of contributors. They include historians and literary critics, and their work spans he spectrum from more traditional methods to those characteristic of what has been termed "New Historicism."One aim of the book is to investigate the apparent division between these older and more current approaches. Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier evaluate the contemporary interest in historical studies of the Renaissance, relating it to previous developments in the field, surveying its achievements and limitations, and suggesting new directions for future work.
388 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1988
History: British and Irish History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Historical Renaissance
Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier
Introduction: Historical Renaissance
Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier
Part I: The Mid-Tudor Scene
A Tudor Queen Finds Voice: Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner
Janel Muller
Ideas of Resistance before Elizabeth
Donald R. Kelly
Part 2: Shakespeare, Politics, and History
Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History
Marjorie Garber
A Tudor Queen Finds Voice: Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner
Janel Muller
Ideas of Resistance before Elizabeth
Donald R. Kelly
Part 2: Shakespeare, Politics, and History
Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History
Marjorie Garber
Faithful Servants: Shakespeare’s Praise of Disobedience
Richard Strier
Cymbeline and the Unease of Topicality
Leah S. Marcus
Part 3: Poets, Courtiers, and the Monarchy
Cymbeline and the Unease of Topicality
Leah S. Marcus
Part 3: Poets, Courtiers, and the Monarchy
Sidney and his Queen
Maureen Quilligan
"The Sun in Water": Donne’s Somerset Epithalamium and the Poetics of Patronage
Heather Dubrow
Law and Ideology: The Civil Law and Theories of Absolutism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Brian P. Levack
"Subject to Ev’ry Mounters Bended Knee": Herbert and Authority
Michael C. Schoenfeldt
Part 4: Humanism and Its Discontents
Barbarous Tongues: The Ideology of Poetic Form in Renaissance England
Richard Helgerson
Sir Philip Sidney and the Uses of History
Arthur F. Kinney
Spenser, Bacon, and the Myth of Power
Clark Hulse
From Matron to Monster: Tudor-Stuart London and the Languages of Urban Description
Lawrence Manley
Notes on Contributors
Maureen Quilligan
"The Sun in Water": Donne’s Somerset Epithalamium and the Poetics of Patronage
Heather Dubrow
Law and Ideology: The Civil Law and Theories of Absolutism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Brian P. Levack
"Subject to Ev’ry Mounters Bended Knee": Herbert and Authority
Michael C. Schoenfeldt
Part 4: Humanism and Its Discontents
Barbarous Tongues: The Ideology of Poetic Form in Renaissance England
Richard Helgerson
Sir Philip Sidney and the Uses of History
Arthur F. Kinney
Spenser, Bacon, and the Myth of Power
Clark Hulse
From Matron to Monster: Tudor-Stuart London and the Languages of Urban Description
Lawrence Manley
Notes on Contributors
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