Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry /
Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebt...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2013
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| Series: | Reformations.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor. The author offers a literary history for the pastoral, arguing that the authors of the first English pastorals used rural laborers familiar from medieval texts -- plowmen and shepherds -- to reflect on the social, economic, and religious disruptions of the sixteenth century. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0268085706 9780268085704 9780268085902 0268085900 |
