English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
Fictions of Transport in Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare
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Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101107049628
- ISBN-139781107049628
- Library of Congress Control Number2017042367
- OCLC Control Number1002295985
- Better World Books9781107049628
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- Open LibraryOL29362918M
Classifications
- LCCPR408.S84C54 2018
- LCCPR408.S84 C54 2018
Description
"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"--
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