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Writing after Sidney - The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640 (Hardcover)
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Writing after Sidney - The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640 (Hardcover)
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Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip
Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and
The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer
of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at
Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his
afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his
best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth. At the same
time as these authors wrote their own works in response to Sidney
they presented his life and writings to the world, and were shaped
by other writers as his literary and political heirs. Readings of
these five central authors are embedded in a more general study of
the literary and cultural scene in the years after Sidney's death,
examining the work of such writers as Spenser, Jonson, Daniel,
Drayton, and Herbert. The study uses a wide range of manuscript and
printed sources, and key use is made of perspectives from
Renaissance literary theory, especially Renaissance rhetoric. The
book aims to come to a better understanding of the nature of
Sidney's impact on the literature of the fifty or so years after
his death in 1586; it also aims to improve our understanding both
of Sidney and of the other writers discussed by developing a more
nuanced approach to the questions of imitation and example so
central to Renaissance literature. It thereby adds to the general
store of our understanding of how writing of the English
Renaissance offered examples to later readers and writers, and of
how it encountered and responded to such examples itself.
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