Essays in memory of Richard Helgerson : laureations / edited by Roze Hentschell and Kathy Lavezzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hentschell, Roze.

Lavezzo, Kathy

Helgerson, Richard

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Criticism.

Helgerson, Richard.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University Of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]

Summary:

This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson's work in major critical debates including national identity, literary careerism, and studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also medieval literary texts, the pieces that comprise Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations respond to both Helgerson's more famous scholarly works and the whole range of his critical corpus, from his earliest work on prodigality to his latest writings on mid-sixteenth-century European poets. The interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparativist spirit of Helgerson's criticism is reflected in the essays, as is his commitment to studies of multiple genres that nevertheless attend to the particularities of form. The contributors offer new interpretations of several Shakespearean plays-Hamlet, I. Henry IV, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear-and other dramas, such as Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestk, the anonymous drama The London Prodigal, and Stephen Greenblatt and John Mee's contemporary play Cardenio. In keeping with Helgerson's comparativist turn, the volume includes analyses of Joachim Du Bellay s poetry and Donato Gianotti's discussion of The Divine Comedy. Prose works featured here encompass More's Utopia and Isaac Walton's The Compleat Angler. Spenser's early poetry and the medieval romance Floris and Blanchflour also receive new readings. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction/ Roze Hentschell and Kathy Lavezzo

Pt. 1. Community, colonialism, and nationhood

Influence, appropriation, piracy: the place of Spain in English literary history/ Barbara Fuchs

Idleness, humanist industry, and English colonial activity in Thomas More's "fruitfull, pleasant," "wittie" and "profitable" utopia/ Shannon Miller

Amorous scholastics: the guilty pleasures of the Middle English Floris and Blauncheflour / Patricia Clare Ingham

Pt. 2. Dramatic forms

Delivery rooms: towards a reconsideration of the conclusion of The tempest/ Heather Dubrow

One head is Better than two: The aphoristic afterlife of Renaissance tragedy/ Frances E. Dolan

About suffering, and on Dying: Shakespeare's re-invention of a theater of eschatological identity in King Lear/ James Nohrnberg

Pt. 3. Travel and geography

Dante, Michelangelo, and what we talk about when we talk about poetry/ Leonard Barkan

The pleasures of the land in Restoration England: the social politics of the compleat angler/ Andrew McRae

Pt. 4. The literary career

Rival laureates and multiple monuments: collaborative self-crowning in France/ Edwin M. Duval

Du Bellay's "Source de la Meduse"/ Margaret Ferguson

The Jacobean prodigals/ Michael O'Connell

Religious affiliation in Elizabethan London: Richard Mulcaster, Edmund Spenser, and The family of love/ Andrew Hadfield

Afterword: Helgersonland/ Patricia Fumerton

Richard Helgerson: A Bibliography

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781611493818

1611493811

9781611493825

161149382X

OCLC:

758396138