Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse : Chronicles of the Self (Early Modern Literature in History)

Heale, Elizabeth

Palgrave Macmillan（2003/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 206 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333773970
• DDC分類 821.309353

Full Description

The advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version of the author. This book examines ways in which writers, often seeking advancement in their careers, harnessed verse for self-promotional purposes. Texts studied include a manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne, printed verse by a woman, Isabella Whitney, travel and war narratives, as well as canonical texts by Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare.

Contents

Introduction 'To Mak My Self to be Known of Many': Miscellanies and the Well-Formed Gentleman The 'Outward Marks' and the 'Inward Man: Thomas Whythorne's Songs and Sonnets Narratives of Experience Spenser as Orpheus Passionate Ejaculations and the Poetics of Presence: Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J. and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella 'My Name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets Bibliography