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Marlowe's republican authorship : Lucan, liberty, and the sublime / Patrick Cheney.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cheney, Patrick, 1949-
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Early modern literature in history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Criticism and interpretation.
Marlowe, Christopher.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Political and social views.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Republicanism in literature.
Republicanism--England--History--16th century.
Republicanism.
Liberty in literature.
History.
Political and social views.
Criticism and interpretation.
England.
Physical Description:
xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Summary:
This book argues broadly that any historical narrative about republicanism needs to place Marlowe at the front of its genealogy, and that his interest in republican ideals is sustained from the beginning to the end of his meteoric career. More specifically, this study will nonetheless argue that it is difficult to discern a clear republican form of government in Marlowe's works. What we can discern is 'republican representation', the author's representational foregrounding of his own republican frame of art. This study is the first to situate the complex Marlowe corpus within the context of the advent of English Republicanism.
Contents:
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
'Make man to live eternally' : the skeptical sublime in Doctor Faustus.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-242) and index.
ISBN:
9781403933416
1403933413
OCLC:
156831938

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