Title Redefining Elizabethan literature / Georgia E. Brown

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) Contents Generating waste : Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship -- Literature as fetish -- Shame and the subject of history Summary Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s. Georgia Brown analyses the period's obsession with shame as both a literary theme and a conscious authorial position. She explores the related obsession of this generation of authors with fragmentary and marginal forms of expression, such as the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence, and complaint. Combining developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts light on the wholesale eroticisation of Elizabethan literary culture, the form and meaning of Englishness, the function of gender and sexuality in establishing literary authority, and the contexts of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney. This study will be of great interest to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as cultural history and gender studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Authorship -- History -- 16th century Shame in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authorship English literature -- Early modern Historiography Intellectual life Literature and history Shame in literature Letterkunde. Engels. Auteurschap. Schaamte. Geestesgeschiedenis. SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Historiography England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301 Subject England Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511265983 0511265980 0511263716 9780511263712 0511265263 9780511265266 9780511483462 0511483465 9780521831239 0521831237 9780521122894 0521122899

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