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Patrons and patron saints in early modern English literature / Alison A. Chapman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Alison, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Authors and patrons--England--History--16th century.
- Authors and patrons.
- Authors and patrons--England--History--17th century.
- Christian patron saints.
- Saints in literature.
- Religion and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Religion and literature.
- Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Literary patrons--Great Britain.
- Literary patrons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and
- Contents:
- The patrons of heaven and earth
- National saints and The faerie queene
- Jonson's hagiographic parody
- Saints, guilds, and players in Shakespeare's histories
- Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the genii loci
- Donne's hagiographic tolerance
- Milton and the border saints.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-13231-3
- 1-283-97268-9
- 0-203-07754-7
- 1-135-13232-1
- 9780203077542
- OCLC:
- 827208975
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