Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ilona Bell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9780521630078
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63007-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 609 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies