Barbarous Antiquity - Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England

Miriam Jacobson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation

PART I. BARBARIAN INVASIONS

Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson's Ars Poetica

Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie

PART II. REDEEMING OVID

Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece

Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis

PART III. REORIENTING ANTIQUITY

Chapter 5. On Chapman Crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: Pearls, Dyes, and Ink in Hero and Leander

Epilogue: The Peregrinations of Barbarous Antiquity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Miriam Jacobson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Summary

Barbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Jacobson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2014
• EAN: 9780812246322
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4632-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies