English authorship and the early modern sublime : Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare /
"Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Patrick Cheney's new book places the sublime at the heart of poems and plays in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that helps explain the greatness of the English Renaissance. Cheney's argument revises the received wisdom, which locates the sublime in the eighteenth-century philosophical 'subject'. The book demonstrates that canonical works like The Faerie Queene and King Lear reinvent sublimity as a new standard of authorship. This standard emerges not only in rational, patriotic paradigms of classical and Christian goodness but also in the eternizing greatness of the author's work: free, heightened, ecstatic. Playing a centralizing role in the advent of modern authorship, the early modern sublime becomes a catalyst in the formation of an English canon"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107049628 1107049628 9781107627918 1107627915 |