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    The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature: 1485-1603

    The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature by Pincombe, Mike; Shrank, Cathy;

    1485-1603

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 10 September 2009

    • ISBN 9780199205882
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages862 pages
    • Size 246x171 mm
    • Weight 1650 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 30 black-and-white halftones
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    This volume is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from 1485-1603. Its forty-five chapters have been written by internationally-acknowledged experts in the field; they give insight into the energy and brilliance of sixteenth-century literature.

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    This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political centralization that enabled and accompanied them; the increasing emulation of Continental and classical literatures under the influence of humanism; the self-conscious emergence of English as a literary language and determined creation of a native literary canon; the beginnings of English empire and the consolidation of a sense of nationhood. However, study of Tudor literature prior to 1580 is not only of worth as a context, or foundation, for an Elizabethan 'golden age'. As this much-needed volume will show, it is also of artistic, intellectual, and cultural merit in its own right. Written by experts from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, the forty-five chapters in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature recover some of the distinctive voices of sixteenth-century writing, its energy, variety, and inventiveness. As well as essays on well-known writers, such as Philip Sidney or Thomas Wyatt, the volume contains the first extensive treatment in print of some of the Tudor era's most original voices.

    In their readiness to challenge assumptions, to re-think theoretical paradigms, and to hold possibilities, alternatives, and contradictions productively in play, these and many other essays in this volume do justice to the dense and complex literature of this period, modelling that literatures best features its ambition, polemic, and debate in its own pages and, in that respect, providing a model to us all.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    Conventions and list of abbreviations
    List of illustrations
    Notes on contributors
    Prologue: The travails of Tudor Literature
    Section I: 1485-1529
    Caxton and the invention of printing
    Dramatic theory and Lucres' 'discretion': the plays of Henry Medwall
    Stephen Hawes and courtly education
    Having the last word: manuscript, print, and the envoy in the poetry of John Skelton
    All for love: Lord Berners and the enduring, evolving romance
    Section II: 1530-1559
    Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the printing of religious propaganda
    Rhetoric, conscience and the playful positions of Sir Thomas More
    John Bale and controversy: readers and audiences
    Sir Thomas Elyot and the bonds of community
    John Heywood and court drama
    Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan: plainness and dissimulation
    Piety and poetry: English psalms from Miles Coverdale to Mary Sidney
    Katherine Parr and her circle
    John Leland and his heirs: the topography of England
    Biblical allusion and argument in Luke Shepherd's verse satires
    Reforming the reformers: Robert Crowley and Nicholas Udall
    William Baldwin and the Tudor imagination
    Directions for English: Thomas Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy, and the Search for Vernacular Eloquence
    Order and Disorder: John Proctor's History of Wyatt's Rebellion (1554)
    Marian political allegory: John Heywood's The Spider and the Fly
    Hall's chronicle and A Mirror for Magistrates: history and the tragic pattern
    A place in the shade: George Cavendish and de casibus tragedy
    What is my nation?: language, verse and politics in Tudor translations of Virgil's Aeneid
    Thomas Hoby, William Thomas and mid-Tudor travel to Italy
    Popularizing courtly poetry: Tottel's 'Miscellany' and its progeny
    Section III: 1560-1579
    Minerva's men: horizontal nationhood and the literary production of Googe, Turberville, and Gascoigne
    'For This is True or Els I do Lye': Thomas Smith, William Bullein and Mid-Tudor Dialogue
    English Seneca: Heywood to Hamlet
    Political tragedy in the 1560s: Cambises and Gorboduc
    John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 1563-1583: antiquity and the affect of history
    Tragical histories, tragical tales
    Foresters, ploughmen and shepherds: versions of Tudor pastoral
    Interludes, economics and the Elizabethan stage
    Ovidian reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass
    The art of war: martial poetics from Henry Howard to Philip Sidney
    Thomas Whythorne and first-person life-writing in the sixteenth century
    Pageants and Propaganda: Robert Langham's Letter and George Gascoigne's Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth
    Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias
    Section IV: 1580-1603
    Gabriel Harvey's choleric writing
    The intimacy of manuscript and the pleasure of print: literary culture from The Schoolmaster to Euphues
    Robert Greene's Pandosto and George Pettie's Palace of Pleasure
    Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Nathaniel Woodes's The Conflict of Conscience
    Fictive Acts: Thomas Nashe and the mid-Tudor legacy
    'Hear my tale or kiss my tail!': The Old Wife's Tale, Gammer Gurton's Needle and the popular cultures of Tudor comedy
    Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the passing of Tudor literature
    Bibliography
    Index

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