Anna-Maria Hartmann
English Mythography in Its European Context, 1500-1650
Anna-Maria Hartmann
English Mythography in Its European Context, 1500-1650
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Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This volume focuses on neglected English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647, revealing a unique English take on the genre and unfolding the significant role myth played in broader culture.
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Mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were indispensable tools of literary engagement during the European Renaissance. This volume focuses on neglected English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647, revealing a unique English take on the genre and unfolding the significant role myth played in broader culture.
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- Classical Presences
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 499g
- ISBN-13: 9780198807704
- ISBN-10: 0198807708
- Artikelnr.: 49086668
- Classical Presences
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 499g
- ISBN-13: 9780198807704
- ISBN-10: 0198807708
- Artikelnr.: 49086668
Dr Anna-Maria Hartmann is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She was previously a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also held the post of Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology at Christ Church between 2012 and 2016. She completed her doctorate in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient mythology in the Renaissance.
* Introduction
* 1: Mythography in Europe, 1500-1567
* 1.1. Renaissance Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Mythographies
* 1.2. Renewal from the Wellsprings of Universal Learning
* 1.3. The New Mythographies
* 2: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and Myth as an Art of Discernment
* 2.1. The First English Mythography and its European Source
* 2.2. A 'Strau[n]ge entermixed stratageme': Batman s Concept of Myth
* 2.3. The Imagined Gods of the Catholics and the Family of Love
* 2.4. The Images of the Ancient Gods
* 2.5. Edmund Spenser and Mythological Discernment in the Bower of
Bliss
* 3: In memoriam Philip Sidney: Mythopoesis in Abraham Fraunce's
Amintas Dale
* 3.1. The Structure and Textual History of Fraunce's Mythography
* 3.2. Fashionably Nebulous: Fraunce's Concept of Myth
* 3.3. Making Sidney into Myth
* 3.4. Lasting Images: Daphne's Story and the Ambiguity of Closure
* 4: Truth Lost in the River of Time: Francis Bacon, Prima Philosophia
, and the Greek Fables
* 4.1. The Stem of the Tree of Knowledge
* 4.2. Parabolic Poetry: Bacon's Concept of Myth and its Kinship with
Prima Philosophia
* 4.3. Allegory in De sapientia veterum
* 4.4. Greek Myth and Prima Philosophia in the Revised Division of
Learning
* 4.5. Early English and European Readers of De sapientia veterum
* 5: While the Winds Breathe, Adore Echo: Henry Reynolds between
Neo-Platonic and Protestant Poetics of Myth
* 5.1. Reynolds and 'the Forme and reall Essence of true Poësy'
* 5.2. Golden Fictions i: 'rauisht, and inflamed with diuine fury'
* 5.3. Golden Fictions ii: 'in a myste, blind and benighted'
* 5.4. Henry Reynolds and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* 5.5. Narcissus and the Divinity of Poetry
* 5.6. Henry Reynolds, English Mythography, and the Divinity of
Poetry
* 6: Gods Save the King: Alexander Ross's Civil Mythography
* 6.1. 'Shall not the very Gentiles condemn them?': Ross and the
Church Robbers
* 6.2. 'Apollo and a King parallel'd': Mel Heliconium to the Rescue
* 6.3. Pansebeia and the Universal Function of Religion in a
Commonwealth
* 7: Conclusion
* 7.1. Renaissance Theories of Myth?
* 7.2. Alexander Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus and What Happened Next
* Endmatter
* References
* Index
* 1: Mythography in Europe, 1500-1567
* 1.1. Renaissance Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Mythographies
* 1.2. Renewal from the Wellsprings of Universal Learning
* 1.3. The New Mythographies
* 2: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and Myth as an Art of Discernment
* 2.1. The First English Mythography and its European Source
* 2.2. A 'Strau[n]ge entermixed stratageme': Batman s Concept of Myth
* 2.3. The Imagined Gods of the Catholics and the Family of Love
* 2.4. The Images of the Ancient Gods
* 2.5. Edmund Spenser and Mythological Discernment in the Bower of
Bliss
* 3: In memoriam Philip Sidney: Mythopoesis in Abraham Fraunce's
Amintas Dale
* 3.1. The Structure and Textual History of Fraunce's Mythography
* 3.2. Fashionably Nebulous: Fraunce's Concept of Myth
* 3.3. Making Sidney into Myth
* 3.4. Lasting Images: Daphne's Story and the Ambiguity of Closure
* 4: Truth Lost in the River of Time: Francis Bacon, Prima Philosophia
, and the Greek Fables
* 4.1. The Stem of the Tree of Knowledge
* 4.2. Parabolic Poetry: Bacon's Concept of Myth and its Kinship with
Prima Philosophia
* 4.3. Allegory in De sapientia veterum
* 4.4. Greek Myth and Prima Philosophia in the Revised Division of
Learning
* 4.5. Early English and European Readers of De sapientia veterum
* 5: While the Winds Breathe, Adore Echo: Henry Reynolds between
Neo-Platonic and Protestant Poetics of Myth
* 5.1. Reynolds and 'the Forme and reall Essence of true Poësy'
* 5.2. Golden Fictions i: 'rauisht, and inflamed with diuine fury'
* 5.3. Golden Fictions ii: 'in a myste, blind and benighted'
* 5.4. Henry Reynolds and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* 5.5. Narcissus and the Divinity of Poetry
* 5.6. Henry Reynolds, English Mythography, and the Divinity of
Poetry
* 6: Gods Save the King: Alexander Ross's Civil Mythography
* 6.1. 'Shall not the very Gentiles condemn them?': Ross and the
Church Robbers
* 6.2. 'Apollo and a King parallel'd': Mel Heliconium to the Rescue
* 6.3. Pansebeia and the Universal Function of Religion in a
Commonwealth
* 7: Conclusion
* 7.1. Renaissance Theories of Myth?
* 7.2. Alexander Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus and What Happened Next
* Endmatter
* References
* Index
* Introduction
* 1: Mythography in Europe, 1500-1567
* 1.1. Renaissance Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Mythographies
* 1.2. Renewal from the Wellsprings of Universal Learning
* 1.3. The New Mythographies
* 2: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and Myth as an Art of Discernment
* 2.1. The First English Mythography and its European Source
* 2.2. A 'Strau[n]ge entermixed stratageme': Batman s Concept of Myth
* 2.3. The Imagined Gods of the Catholics and the Family of Love
* 2.4. The Images of the Ancient Gods
* 2.5. Edmund Spenser and Mythological Discernment in the Bower of
Bliss
* 3: In memoriam Philip Sidney: Mythopoesis in Abraham Fraunce's
Amintas Dale
* 3.1. The Structure and Textual History of Fraunce's Mythography
* 3.2. Fashionably Nebulous: Fraunce's Concept of Myth
* 3.3. Making Sidney into Myth
* 3.4. Lasting Images: Daphne's Story and the Ambiguity of Closure
* 4: Truth Lost in the River of Time: Francis Bacon, Prima Philosophia
, and the Greek Fables
* 4.1. The Stem of the Tree of Knowledge
* 4.2. Parabolic Poetry: Bacon's Concept of Myth and its Kinship with
Prima Philosophia
* 4.3. Allegory in De sapientia veterum
* 4.4. Greek Myth and Prima Philosophia in the Revised Division of
Learning
* 4.5. Early English and European Readers of De sapientia veterum
* 5: While the Winds Breathe, Adore Echo: Henry Reynolds between
Neo-Platonic and Protestant Poetics of Myth
* 5.1. Reynolds and 'the Forme and reall Essence of true Poësy'
* 5.2. Golden Fictions i: 'rauisht, and inflamed with diuine fury'
* 5.3. Golden Fictions ii: 'in a myste, blind and benighted'
* 5.4. Henry Reynolds and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* 5.5. Narcissus and the Divinity of Poetry
* 5.6. Henry Reynolds, English Mythography, and the Divinity of
Poetry
* 6: Gods Save the King: Alexander Ross's Civil Mythography
* 6.1. 'Shall not the very Gentiles condemn them?': Ross and the
Church Robbers
* 6.2. 'Apollo and a King parallel'd': Mel Heliconium to the Rescue
* 6.3. Pansebeia and the Universal Function of Religion in a
Commonwealth
* 7: Conclusion
* 7.1. Renaissance Theories of Myth?
* 7.2. Alexander Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus and What Happened Next
* Endmatter
* References
* Index
* 1: Mythography in Europe, 1500-1567
* 1.1. Renaissance Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Mythographies
* 1.2. Renewal from the Wellsprings of Universal Learning
* 1.3. The New Mythographies
* 2: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and Myth as an Art of Discernment
* 2.1. The First English Mythography and its European Source
* 2.2. A 'Strau[n]ge entermixed stratageme': Batman s Concept of Myth
* 2.3. The Imagined Gods of the Catholics and the Family of Love
* 2.4. The Images of the Ancient Gods
* 2.5. Edmund Spenser and Mythological Discernment in the Bower of
Bliss
* 3: In memoriam Philip Sidney: Mythopoesis in Abraham Fraunce's
Amintas Dale
* 3.1. The Structure and Textual History of Fraunce's Mythography
* 3.2. Fashionably Nebulous: Fraunce's Concept of Myth
* 3.3. Making Sidney into Myth
* 3.4. Lasting Images: Daphne's Story and the Ambiguity of Closure
* 4: Truth Lost in the River of Time: Francis Bacon, Prima Philosophia
, and the Greek Fables
* 4.1. The Stem of the Tree of Knowledge
* 4.2. Parabolic Poetry: Bacon's Concept of Myth and its Kinship with
Prima Philosophia
* 4.3. Allegory in De sapientia veterum
* 4.4. Greek Myth and Prima Philosophia in the Revised Division of
Learning
* 4.5. Early English and European Readers of De sapientia veterum
* 5: While the Winds Breathe, Adore Echo: Henry Reynolds between
Neo-Platonic and Protestant Poetics of Myth
* 5.1. Reynolds and 'the Forme and reall Essence of true Poësy'
* 5.2. Golden Fictions i: 'rauisht, and inflamed with diuine fury'
* 5.3. Golden Fictions ii: 'in a myste, blind and benighted'
* 5.4. Henry Reynolds and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
* 5.5. Narcissus and the Divinity of Poetry
* 5.6. Henry Reynolds, English Mythography, and the Divinity of
Poetry
* 6: Gods Save the King: Alexander Ross's Civil Mythography
* 6.1. 'Shall not the very Gentiles condemn them?': Ross and the
Church Robbers
* 6.2. 'Apollo and a King parallel'd': Mel Heliconium to the Rescue
* 6.3. Pansebeia and the Universal Function of Religion in a
Commonwealth
* 7: Conclusion
* 7.1. Renaissance Theories of Myth?
* 7.2. Alexander Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus and What Happened Next
* Endmatter
* References
* Index