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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cheney, Patrick, 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Sublime, The, in literature. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism. English drama > 17th century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. English drama. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan. English literature > Early modern. 1500-1700 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.