Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 April 2018
- ISBN 9780198704102
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 242x164x28 mm
- Weight 708 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship
between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.
Long description:
This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions between democracy and the imagination which persist throughout the century.
Part One establishes a social dimension for literary culture in the period by exploring the associations of 'commonwealth' and related terms. It addresses the role of Greek in the period before and during the Reformation in disturbing the old binary of elite Latin and common English. It also argues that the Reformation principle of making common is coupled with a hostility towards fiction, which has the effect of closing down the humanist renaissance of the earlier decades. Part Two presents translation as the link between Reformation and Renaissance, and the final part discusses the Elizabethan literary renaissance and deals in turn with poetry, short prose fiction, and the drama written for the common stage.
[...] this is an extraordinary study. Without denying or side-lining the social and economic dimensions, Rhodes sets out to tell a distinctively literary story about Tudor English culture. He covers an enormous range of materials from disparate periods, yet rarely sounds like anything but an expert. [...] his treatment of it will resonate with the impression of many literary critics that something special happened in the final decades of the sixteenth century.
Table of Contents:
PART ONE
Versions of the Common
Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England
Literature in Crisis
Preface
PART TWO
Translating for the Commonwealth
PART THREE
Of Reformed Versifying
Vulgar Italian and the Elizabethan Short Story
The Common Stage
Conclusion
Bibliography
