Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. An introduction to Elizabethan courtship; 2. An Elizabethan poetics of courtship; 3. The practice of Elizabethan courtship; 4. The lyric dialogue of Elizabethan courtship; 5. Anne Vavasour and Henry Lee; 6. A female lyric tradition; 7. Daniel's lyric dialogue of courtship; 8. Spenser's Amoretti; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Zusammenfassung

During Elizabeth I's reign, love poetry acquired a popularity and brilliance unparalleled in English literary history. Showing how love poetry was used to court Elizabethan women, in this 1999 book Bell examines a range of texts by male poets and women writers, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ilona Bell, Bell Ilona
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521630078
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63007-8
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Gewicht: 580 g
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets