Defending literature in early modern England: Renaissance literary theory in social context/

Main Author: Matz, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, c2000
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 37
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "aut prodesse...aut delectare"
  • Recreating reading : Elyot's Boke named the governour
  • Heroic diversions : Sidney's Defence of poetry
  • A "gentle discipline" : Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • Epilogue : from text to work?.