Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII - Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit

Klappentext A study of the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Zusammenfassung Seth Lerer reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through close readings of early Tudor poetry! court drama! letters! anthologies and printed books! Lerer illuminates a world of displayed bodies! surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on editions and abbreviations; 1. Pretexts: Chaucer's Pandarus and the origins of courtly discourse; 2. The King's Pandars: performing courtiership in the 1510s; 3. The King's hand: body politics in the letters of Henry VIII; 4. Private quotations, public memories: Troilus and Criseyde and the politics of the manuscript anthology; 5. Wyatt, Chaucer, Tottel: the verse epistle and the subjects of the courtly lyric; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Lerer, Seth (Stanford University Lerer
• Assisted by: Anne Barton (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521590013
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59001-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies