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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Main Author: Cheney, Patrick, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: authorship and sublimity -- Citizenship and Godhood: a historical aesthetics of the sublime image, longinus to lyotard -- Spenser's sublime career -- Fictions of transport: Spenser's heroic sublime -- Tragedy and transport: Phantasia in Marlowe's poems and plays -- 'A world of figures': the Shakespearean sublime -- The sublime wit of Ben Jonson -- Afterword: 'the Aonian mount': sublimity, eloquence, canonicity. 
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