Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

Klappentext An original investigation of courtship in Elizabethan love poetry by male and female writers, first published in 1999. 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ilona Bell, Ilona (Williams College Bell, Bell Ilona
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521158725
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15872-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets