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This study, first published in 1982, explores and demonstrates the
ways in which an awareness of literary genre can illuminate works
as diverse as Milton's 'Lycidas' and Berryman's Sonnets. The first
book to offer a historical survey of genre theory, it traces the
history from the Greek rhetoricians to such contemporary figures as
Frye and Todorov. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in
which comments on genre reflect underlying aesthetic attitudes.
This study, first published in 1982, explores and demonstrates the
ways in which an awareness of literary genre can illuminate works
as diverse as Milton's 'Lycidas' and Berryman's Sonnets. The first
book to offer a historical survey of genre theory, it traces the
history from the Greek rhetoricians to such contemporary figures as
Frye and Todorov. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in
which comments on genre reflect underlying aesthetic attitudes.
This 1999 book re-examines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts
in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation
which threatened domestic security in early modern England.
Burglary, the loss of home, and the early deaths of parents emerge
as central and very telling issues in Shakespearean drama. Heather
Dubrow recovers the particular significance of home, especially in
relation to gender, male and female subjectivity. She relates the
plays to Shakespeare's poetry (The Rape of Lucrece), and to early
modern cultural texts such as the literature of roguery; she also
introduces illuminating perspectives from contemporary social
problems (notably crime), twentieth-century poetry, and popular
culture. One of the most vital aspects of this fascinating study is
to connect concerns at the cutting edge of cultural studies (such
as the construction of transgressive Others) to more traditional
literary concerns such as genre, especially the workings of romance
and pastoral.
This 1999 book re-examines some of Shakespeare's best-known texts
in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation
which threatened domestic security in early modern England.
Burglary, the loss of home, and the early deaths of parents emerge
as central and very telling issues in Shakespearean drama. Heather
Dubrow recovers the particular significance of home, especially in
relation to gender, male and female subjectivity. She relates the
plays to Shakespeare's poetry (The Rape of Lucrece), and to early
modern cultural texts such as the literature of roguery; she also
introduces illuminating perspectives from contemporary social
problems (notably crime), twentieth-century poetry, and popular
culture. One of the most vital aspects of this fascinating study is
to connect concerns at the cutting edge of cultural studies (such
as the construction of transgressive Others) to more traditional
literary concerns such as genre, especially the workings of romance
and pastoral.
Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of
historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature
by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition
and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the
broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies.
Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models
used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet
and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient
patron on the other.
As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely.
While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike
poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have
questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition,
calling into doubt the very possibility of self-expression in
language.
Whereas much recent scholarship on lyric has centered on the
Romantic era, Heather Dubrow turns instead to the poetry of early
modern England. "The Challenges of Orpheus" confronts widespread
assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship
to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production
and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and
the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative.
Offering fresh perspectives on major texts of the period--from
Wyatt's "My lute awake" to Milton's Nativity Ode--as well as poems
by lesser-known figures, Dubrow extends her critical conclusions to
poetry in other historical periods and to the relationship between
creative writers and critics, recommending new directions for the
study of lyric and of genre.
Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to
the debate on historical method. For nearly two decades,
Renaissance literary scholarship has been dominated by various
forms of postmodern criticism which claim to expose the simplistic
methodology of `traditional' criticism and to offer a more
sophisticated view of the relation between literature and history;
however, this new approach, although making scholars more alert to
the political significance of literary texts, has been widely
criticised on both methodological and theoretical grounds. The
revisionist essays collected in this volume make a major
contribution to the modern debate on historical method, approaching
Renaissance culture from different gender perspectives and a
variety of political standpoints, but all sharing an interest in
the interdisciplinary study of the past.ROBIN HEADLAM WELLS is
Professor of English, University of Surrey Roehampton; GLENN
BURGESS is Professor of History, University of Hull; ROWLAND WYMER
is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.
Contributors: GLENN BURGESS, STANLEY STEWART, BLAIR WORDEN, ANDREW
GURR, KATHARINE EISAMAN MAUS, ROWLAND WYMER, GRAHAM PARRY, MALCOLM
SMUTS, STEVEN ZWICKER, HEATHER DUBROW,ROBIN HEADLAM WELLS.
This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics
who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of
Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology
evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical
debates including national identity, literary careerism, and
studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also medieval
literary texts, the pieces that comprise Essays in Memory of
Richard Helgerson: Laureations respond to both Helgerson’s more
famous scholarly works and the whole range of his critical corpus,
from his earliest work on prodigality to his latest writings on
mid-sixteenth century European poets. Â The interdisciplinary,
transnational, and comparativist spirit of Helgerson’s criticism
is reflected in the essays, as is his commitment to studies of
multiple genres that nevertheless attend to the particularities of
form. Â Contributors offer new interpretations of several of
Shakespeare’s plays—Hamlet, I Henry IV, The Tempest,
Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear—and other dramas such
as Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle, the anonymous
drama The London Prodigal, and Stephen Greenblatt and John Mee’s
contemporary play Cardenio.  In keeping with Helgerson’s
comparativist turn, the volume includes analyses of Joachim Du
Bellay’s poetry and Donato Gianotti’s discussion of The Divine
Comedy. Prose works featured in the volume encompass More’s
Utopia and Isaac Walton’s The Compleat Angler. Spenser’s early
poetry and the medieval romance Floris and Blanchflour also receive
new readings. Â
The Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most
influential current in contemporary studies of the English
Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between
literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied
manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this
collection. Rather than merely providing a sampler of any single
critical movement, The Historical Renaissance represents the range
of ways scholars and critics are fusing what many would once have
distinguished as literary and historical concerns The volume
includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and
Stuart periods. The scope of the collection is also manifest in its
list of contributors. They include historians and literary critics,
and their work spans he spectrum from more traditional methods to
those characteristic of what has been termed New Historicism.One
aim of the book is to investigate the apparent division between
these older and more current approaches. Heather Dubrow and Richard
Strier evaluate the contemporary interest in historical studies of
the Renaissance, relating it to previous developments in the field,
surveying its achievements and limitations, and suggesting new
directions for future work.
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