Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England - Strange Histories

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'.

List of contents

Introduction: Strange Histories
1. Forms of Civic Medievalism in the 1590s
2. Polemic, Citation, Satire or Chaucer the Puritan
3. Chaucer on Grub Street or The medievalist moment of Elizabethan prose fiction, c. 1590
4. The Medievalism of Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton
5. Remembering the Reformation: The late Elizabethan and early Jacobean 'Reformation History Play'
Postscript - 'In Diebus Illis': Medieval poets, debating breeches, and the (proto) Creation of Medievalism

About the author

Mike Rodman Jones

Summary

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Rodman Jones, Mike (Contributor) Rodman Jones
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781843846598
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-659-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 242 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 441 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies