English authorship and the early modern sublime: fictions of transport in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson

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 J...

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Beteilige Person: Cheney, Patrick Gerard 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279100
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279100
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279100
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Mar 2018)
Umfang:1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages)
ISBN:9781107279100
DOI:10.1017/9781107279100