English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
Av Patrick Cheney, Patrick (Pennsylvania State University) Cheney
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Patrick 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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2018-03-29
- Mått157 x 235 x 21 mm
- Vikt600 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor328
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781107049628