Sons and authors in Elizabethan England / Derek B. Alwes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alwes, Derek B., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyly, John, 1554?-1606--Fictional works.

Lyly, John.

Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Fictional works.

Sidney, Philip.

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592--Criticism and interpretation.

Greene, Robert.

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

English fiction.

Fiction--Authorship--History--16th century.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Illegible] - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England poetry (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was juvenilin - a youthful exercise that one gave up as one Illegible] one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a career as a writer of poetry or fiction was virtually inconceivable, It is the purpose of this study to suggest how such a career finally became conceivable at this historical moment by examining the ways each of these authors managed to negotiate a relationship to writing that enabled them to mature into adulthood, not only without relinquishing their writing, but actually by means of the self- Illegible] and social interaction enabled by that writing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

"What thing so precious as wit?": John Lyly's Euphues Works

"I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court

"I call it praise to suffer tyrannie": Sidney's (Anti) Courtly Works

"To serve your prince by . . . an honest dissimulation": The New Arcadia as a Defense of Poetry

"He who cannot dissemble, cannot live": Robert Greene's Romances

"I may terme my selfe a writer": Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry

Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.

ISBN:

0-8453-4607-5

OCLC:

787844650