English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime - Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Patrick Cheney
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-04962-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-04962-8
Barcode:	9781107049628

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