{"product_id":"english-authorship-and-the-early-modern-sublime-spenser-marlowe-shakespeare-jonson-hardback-9781107049628","title":"English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime; Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson (Hardback) 9781107049628","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnglish Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLinking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Cheney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107049628, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 2 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Patrick Cheney, observing a resurgence of interest in the idea of the sublime, has contributed an original and persuasive book on this subject … The book meticulously catalogs and analyzes uses of the word sublime throughout the period.' Richard F. Hardin, Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePatrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that helps explain the greatness of the English Renaissance. Cheney's argument revises the received wisdom, which locates the sublime in the eighteenth-century philosophical 'subject'. The book demonstrates that canonical works like The Faerie Queene and King Lear reinvent sublimity as a new standard of authorship. This standard emerges not only in rational, patriotic paradigms of classical and Christian goodness but also in the eternizing greatness of the author's work: free, heightened, ecstatic. Playing a centralizing role in the advent of modern authorship, the early modern sublime becomes a catalyst in the formation of an English canon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on texts and references\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: authorship and sublimity\u003cbr\u003e 1. Citizenship and Godhood: a historical aesthetics of the sublime image, longinus to lyotard\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spenser's sublime career\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fictions of transport: Spenser's heroic sublime\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tragedy and transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's poems and plays\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'A world of figures': the Shakespearean sublime\u003cbr\u003e 6. The sublime wit of Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: 'the Aonian mount': sublimity, eloquence, canonicity\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201500%20to%20c%201800%20%5BDSBD%5D%22\"\u003eDSBD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265553813784,"sku":"9781107049628","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107049628i.jpg?v=1692024155","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/english-authorship-and-the-early-modern-sublime-spenser-marlowe-shakespeare-jonson-hardback-9781107049628","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}