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Zusatztext The comprehensive and multifocused scope of "Ungainefull Arte" gives it strength. Another welcome feature is the dismissal of simplistic ideas opposing manuscript and print presentations. ... "Ungainefull Arte" provides a valuable reference for studies in this area. Informationen zum Autor Richard A. McCabe is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and held a Major Leverhuleme Fellowship from 2011 to 2014. He is author of Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation; The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerie Queene'; Incest, Drama, and Nature's Law 1550-1700; and Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference. He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Spenser's Shorter Poems and The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. Klappentext 'Ungainefull Arte' examines how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange competed with those of the marketplaces, allowing for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme. Zusammenfassung 'Ungainefull Arte' examines how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange competed with those of the marketplaces, allowing for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1: Of Followers and Friends: Problems of Definition 2: Visions of Laurel: Classical Exemplars 3: The Arts of Magnificence: Early Modern Exemplars 4: Economies of Script and Print 5: The Rhetoric of Paratexts 6: The Protocols of Presentation PART TWO: ITALIAN LITERARY PATRONAGE 7: Petrarch: The Renaissance of Patronage 8: Ariosto: Laureate or Poligrafo? 9: Tasso: Patronage and Imprisonment PART THREE: ENGLISH LITERARY PATRONAGE, 1500-1625 10: Print and Patronage in the Early Tudor Age 11: Elizabeth I and Court Patronage 12: Courts and Coteries 13: The Elizabethan Marketplace 14: Career Trajectories 15: Egerton: A Patron's 'Canon' 16: The Courts of King James and Prince Henry 17: Conclusion: Laurels Won and Lost Bibliography ...
