Gathering force : early modern literature in transition, 1557-1623. Volume 1 / edited by Kristen Poole, University of Delaware ; Lauren Shohet, Villanova University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Poole, Kristen, editor.

Shohet, Lauren, editor.

John Louis Haney Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society.

England.

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

English literature.

Literature and society--England--16th century.

Literature and society--England--17th century.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxii, 398 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, England grew from a marginal to a major European power, established overseas settlements, and negotiated the Protestant Reformation. The population burgeoned and became increasingly urban. England also saw the meteoric rise of commercial theatre in London, the creation of a vigorous market for printed texts, and the emergence of writing as a viable profession. Literacy rates exploded, and an increasingly diverse audience encountered a profusion of new textual forms. Media, and literary culture, transformed on a scale that would not happen again until television and the Internet. The twenty innovative contributions in Gathering Force: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1557--1623 trace ways that five different genres both spurred and responded to change. Chapters explore different facets of lyric poetry, romance, commercial drama, masques and pageants, and non-narrative prose. Exciting and accessible, this volume illuminates the dynamic relationships among the period's social, political, and literary transformations. --From Publisher's description.

Contents:

The English sonnet: cycles and recycling / Catherine Bates

Romance: traditions and innovations / Kenneth Borris

Drama: forming an audience / Lois Potter

Pageants, masques, and entertainments: old rituals, new forms / Lauren Shohet

Arts of rhetoric: antique and modern / Jenny C. Mann

Lyric and spiritualism: John Dunne's The ecstasy / Douglas Trevor

Romance and the boundaries of genre and gender / Andrew Hadfield

Drama and globalization in early modern England / Daniel J. Vitkus

The court masque: art and politics / Peter Holbroook

Prose, science, and scripture: Francis Bacon's sacred texts / Katherine Bootle Attié

Lyric and scientific epistemologies: Bacon and Donne / Liza Blake

Romance and early modern cultures of the book / Sarah Wall-Randell

Drama and commodity culture in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / / Bradley D. Ryner

Pageantry and politics: the anxiety of arrival / Tom Bishop

Prose and the publishc sphere / David ColcloughPsalmslams and early modEnglishlish poetry / Lucía Martínez Valdivia

Romance, magical space, and Wroth's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanagh

Drama and the playhouse / Lucy Munro

Greek tragedy on the university stage: Buchanan and Euripides / Hannah Crawforth and Lucy Jackson

Prose and pulpit / Lori Anne Ferrell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

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

ISBN:

9781108419635

1108419631

OCLC:

1048662405

Publisher Number:

99983927004