Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry

Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry / Katherine C. Little.

Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebt...

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Main Author: Little, Katherine C., 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013
Series:Reformations.
Subjects:
1500-1700
Pastoral poetry, English > History and criticism.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > Influence.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > History.
English poetry > Early modern
Literature, Medieval > Influence
Pastoral poetry, English
Englisch
Hirtendichtung
Lyrik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Medieval traditions of writing rural labor
  • The invention of the English eclogue
  • The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism
  • Transforming work : the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition
  • Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor
  • Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Afterword : The secret history of pastoral.

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