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  • Spenser's Famous Flight

    by Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Heritage
    In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation.Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Poetry in English

    Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

    Edited by Catherine Bates, Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Oxford History of Poetry in English
    The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Worldmaking Spenser

    Explorations in the Early Modern Age

    Edited by Patrick Cheney, Lauren Silberman ...
    Series series Studies in the English Renaissance
    Worldmaking Spenser reexamines the role of Spenser's work in English history and highlights the richness and complexity of his understanding of place. The volume centers on the idea that complex and allusive literary works such as The Faerie Queene must be read in the context of the cultural, literary, political, economic, and ideological forces at play in the highly allegorical poem. The authors ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

    Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros

    by Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Early Modern Literary Geographies
    Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in English Renaissance culture. The absence of such a study in the fields of literature and geography is surprising: from its captivating origin in the oceanic margins of Homer's Odyssey to its presence in the Eden of Milton's Paradise Lost, Elysium is a destination to be desired: it ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

    Edited by Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

    by Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
    Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

    Edited by Patrick Cheney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his ... Read more

    Was $32.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime

    Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson

    by Patrick Cheney ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

    Volume 2: 1558-1660

    Edited by Patrick Cheney, Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
    The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Originality

    by John Kerrigan ...
    Series series Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures
    How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD