| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) |
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 21 |
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 21.
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| Contents |
The patrons of heaven and earth -- National saints and The faerie queene -- Jonson's hagiographic parody -- Saints, guilds, and players in Shakespeare's histories -- Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the genii loci -- Donne's hagiographic tolerance -- Milton and the border saints |
| Summary |
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word ""patron"" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Christian patron saints.
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Saints in literature.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Literary patrons -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors and patrons
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Christian patron saints
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English literature -- Early modern
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Literary patrons
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Religion and literature
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Saints in literature
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England
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012023848 |
| ISBN |
9781135132323 |
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1135132321 |
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0203077547 |
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9780203077542 |
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9781283972680 |
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1283972689 |
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