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Autobiography and authorship in Renaissance verse : chronicles of the self / Elizabeth Heale.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR535.S44 H43 2003
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Van Pelt Library PR535.S44 H43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heale, Elizabeth, 1946-
- Series:
- Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Early modern literature in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Self in literature.
- Autobiography in literature.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Poets in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 206 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- The advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-16th century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version of the author. This book examines ways in which writers, often seeking advancement in their careers, harnessed verse for self-promotional purposes. Texts studied include a manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne, printed verse by a woman, Isabella Whitney, travel and war narratives, as well as canonical texts by Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare.
- Contents:
- 1 'To mak my self to be known of many': miscellanies and the well-formed gentleman 11
- The gentleman's miscellany: Tottel and his imitators 14
- Amorous narrative sequences 23
- A woman's voice: Isabella Whitney 34
- 2 The 'outward marks' and the 'inward man': Thomas Whythorne's 'songs and sonetts' 41
- 'The lyf of A water spannell' 43
- 'To mak my self to be known of many' 49
- 3 Narratives of experience 57
- The mean estate 57
- 'Pitie the tale of me' 62
- Soldiers' tales 69
- 'Travailing' abroad: the writer as adventurer 76
- Colin Clovts Come Home Againe 85
- 4 Spenser as Orpheus 92
- Civility and language 96
- Amoretti 99
- Epithalamion 112
- 5 Passionate ejaculations and the poetics of presence: Gascoigne's 'The Adventures of Master F.J.' and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella 125
- 'A straunge discourse of some intollerable passion' 126
- 'The Adventures of Master F.J.' 132
- The 'feeling skill' of Astrophil 144
- 6 'My name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets 154.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333773977
- OCLC:
- 50476833
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