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Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry / Katherine C. Little.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Little, Katherine C., 1969-
- Series:
- Reformations.
- ReFormations : medieval and early modern
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Pastoral poetry, English.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Literature, Medieval--Influence.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor.
- Contents:
- Medieval traditions of writing rural labor
- The invention of the English eclogue
- The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism
- Transforming work: the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition
- Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor
- Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene
- Afterword: The secret history of pastoral.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268085902
- 0268085900
- 9780268085704
- 0268085706
- OCLC:
- 846551494
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