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Redefining Elizabethan Literature

A wide-ranging study of the development of the concept of literature and authorship in late Elizabethan culture.

Georgia Brown (Author)

9780521831239, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 November 2004

270 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.57 kg

Review of the hardback: ' … thought-provoking and challenging book … well-documented; it offers a precise reading of most of the contemporary critical essays … it challenges one's desire to contradict her even while admitting that she can be enticingly convincing … elegantly written … stimulating, worthwhile read.' Cahiers Elizabéthains

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.

1. Introduction
2. Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship
3. Literature as fetish
4. Shame and the subject of history
Epilogue
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD]

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