Sidney's Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue / Richard James Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Richard (Richard J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.

Sidney, Philip.

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Criticism and interpretation.

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.

Arcadia (Sidney, Philip).

Virtue in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. `She made her courtiers learned': Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia and his step-dame, Elizabeth

2. `Philip has the word and the substance': a Philippist reading of Sidney's New Arcadia

3. If an excellent man should err': Sir Philip Sidney and stoical virtue

4. I am a man; that is to say, a creature whose reason is often darkened with error': Sir Philip Sidney, humility and revising the Arcadia

5. `Think nature me a man of arms did make'?: conflicted conflicts in Astropbil and Stella and the New Arcadia

6. `The representing of so strange a power in love': Sir Philip Sidney's legacy of anti-factionalism

7. `Cleverly playing the stoic': the Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and surviving Elizabeth's court.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

1526136465

9781526136466

OCLC:

1120085822