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 November 2011

ISBN 9780199697892
Binding Paperback
No. of pages864 pages
Size 246x171 mm
Weight 1490 g
Language English
Illustrations 30 black-and-white halftones

Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 the death of Elizabeth I. It pays particular 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 of 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.

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