Author: Thomas LodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interest
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An Alarum Against Usurers
Author: Thomas LodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interest
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Alarum Against Usurers
Author: Thomas LodgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781018063294
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An alarum against usurers
Author: Thomas LodgePublications
Author: Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Romance for Sale in Early Modern England
Author: Steve MentzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which professional writers created books to be printed and sold to anonymous readers. It further claims that this period's narrative innovations emerged not solely from changes in early modern culture like print and the book market, but also from the rediscovery of a forgotten late classical text from North Africa, Heliodorus's Aethiopian History. In making these claims, Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier. Examining the divergent but interlocking careers of Robert Greene, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Nashe, Mentz traces how through differing commitments to print culture and their respective engagements with Heliodoran romance, these authors helped make the genre of prose fiction culturally and economically viable in England. Mentz explores how the advent of print and the book market changed literary discourse, influencing new conceptions of what he calls 'middlebrow' narrative and new habits of reading and writing. This study draws together three important strains of current scholarly inquiry: the history of the book and print culture, the study of popular fiction, and the re-examination of genre and influence. It also connects early modern fiction with longer histories of prose fiction and the rise of the modern novel.
Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt
Author: Samuel JohnsonLives of the British Poets
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The School of Abuse
Author: John NorthbrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Thomas Lodge
Author: Charles C. WhitneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351879073
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Thomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His long, eventful, and well-documented life makes him one of the most individualized figures of his age, and yet also one of the most representative. This is the first-ever collection of Lodge scholarship. It comprises a selection of the best and most important biographical and critical work, ranging from 1932 to 2008 and including first-time English translations. Charles Whitney's discerning introduction discusses each article or book chapter in the context of Lodge scholarship and beyond, and is supplemented by a bibliography of additional material. This unique collection offers a distinctive vantage on both Lodge and many current topics in Renaissance and early modern studies such as humanism, republicanism, romance, intertextuality, plagiarism, gender, colonization, Shakespearean sources, the histories of print and of reading, authorship, and English Catholicism and religious conflict.
Shakespeare's Irrational Endings
Author: D. MargoliesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137031042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations.