In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil wars. Looking at engagements with Lucan across a wide variety of literary forms, Paleit questions what made this Latin author so relevant during this period.
In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil wars. Looking at engagements with Lucan across a wide variety of literary forms, Paleit questions what made this Latin author so relevant during this period.
Edward Paleit is a lecturer at the University of Exeter. His interests are in Renaissance literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on the reception of classical texts and English political writing of the early seventeenth century.
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Preface Abbreviations Note Introduction: An Author of Commanding Altitude Part I: Contexts of Reading 1: Lucan in Humanist Pedagogy 2: Lucan in Controversy: Poetry, History and Truth Part II: Readings 3: Lucan and the Caesarist Reader, ca. 1590-1610 4: Speaking to Pothinus: Lucan and 'commonwealth' drama from The Misfortunes of Arthur to The Tragedy of Nero 5: Divided Readers: Lucan in mid-Jacobean England 6: Thomas May and the Fall of English Liberty 7: Ending Lucan Bibliography Index
Preface Abbreviations Note Introduction: An Author of Commanding Altitude Part I: Contexts of Reading 1: Lucan in Humanist Pedagogy 2: Lucan in Controversy: Poetry, History and Truth Part II: Readings 3: Lucan and the Caesarist Reader, ca. 1590-1610 4: Speaking to Pothinus: Lucan and 'commonwealth' drama from The Misfortunes of Arthur to The Tragedy of Nero 5: Divided Readers: Lucan in mid-Jacobean England 6: Thomas May and the Fall of English Liberty 7: Ending Lucan Bibliography Index
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