English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime - Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Note on texts and references; Illustrations; Introduction: authorship and sublimity; 1. Citizenship and Godhood: a historical aesthetics of the sublime image, longinus to lyotard; 2. Spenser's sublime career; 3. Fictions of transport: Spenser's heroic sublime; 4. Tragedy and transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's poems and plays; 5. 'A world of figures': the Shakespearean sublime; 6. The sublime wit of Ben Jonson; Afterword: 'the Aonian mount': sublimity, eloquence, canonicity; Works cited; Index.

About the author

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven monographs and the editor of eleven collections, as well as the editor of poems by Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. A recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal from Pennsylvania State University and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana, Cheney has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Currently, he is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

Summary

Studying the sublime in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writing, this book advances our understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the arts and humanities today. Above all, the chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that explains the greatness of the English literary Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Cheney, Patrick (Pennsylvania State University) Cheney, CHENEY PATRICK
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781107049628
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04962-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights