Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95 - Tapa blanda

Sweeney, Anne R; Sweeney, Anne R.; TBD

 
9780719085673: Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95
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ISBN 10: 0719085675 ISBN 13: 9780719085673
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2011

Sinopsis

Robert Southwell’s poetic view of Spenser’s, Signey’s and Shakespeare’s England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots.

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Anne R. Sweeney teaches English at Lancaster University. Her interests include renaissance art and literature and writing poetry

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It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell's poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and sharp critiques of Elizabeth's courtiers, and even of the ageing queen herself.

Using both the most recent edition of Southwell's poetry and manuscript materials, it addresses both poetry and private writings including letters and diary material to give dramatic context to the radicalisation of a generation of Southwell's countrymen and women, showing how the young Jesuit harnessed both drama and literature to give new poetic poignancy to their experience.

Bringing a rigorously forensic approach to Southwell's 'lighter' pieces, Sweeney can now show to what extent Southwell engaged exclusively through them in direct artistic debate with Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare, placing the poetry firmly in the English landscape familiar to Southwell's generation. Those interested in early modern and Elizabethan culture will find much of interest, including new insights into the function of the arts in the private Catholic milieu touched by Southwell in so many ways and places.

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It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and sharp critiques of Elizabeth s courtiers, and even of the ageing queen herself.Using both the most recent edition of Southwell s poetry and manuscript materials, it addresses both poetry and private writings including letters and diary material to give dramatic context to the radicalisation of a generation of Southwell s countrymen and women, showing how the young Jesuit harnessed both drama and literature to give new poetic poignancy to their experience. Bringing a rigorously forensic approach to Southwell s lighter pieces, Sweeney can now show to what extent Southwell engaged exclusively through them in direct artistic debate with Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare, placing the poetry firmly in the English landscape familiar to Southwell s generation. Those interested in early modern and Elizabethan culture will find much of interest, including new insights into the function of the arts in the private Catholic milieu touched by Southwell in so many ways and places.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719085675
ISBN 13 
9780719085673
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
328
Contacto del fabricante
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