Writing Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature.
Writing Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature.
Greg Walker is Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry VIII's England * Poetry and the Culture of Counsel: The 1532 Workes of Geffray Chaucer and John Heywood's Play of the Wether * 2: A Gift for Henry VIII * 3: The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early 1530s * 4: Reading Chaucer in 1532 * 5: Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha * 6: Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's Play of the Wether * 'To Virtue Persuaded'?: The Persistent Counsels of Sir Thomas Elyot * 7: Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter * 8: The Boke Named the Governor: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy * 9: Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34 * 10: From Supremacy to Tyranny * 11: The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot * The Death of Counsel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey * 12: Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics * 13: Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires * 14: Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence' * 15: Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms * 16: 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of Resistance * 17: Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of English Poetry
* 1: The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry VIII's England * Poetry and the Culture of Counsel: The 1532 Workes of Geffray Chaucer and John Heywood's Play of the Wether * 2: A Gift for Henry VIII * 3: The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early 1530s * 4: Reading Chaucer in 1532 * 5: Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha * 6: Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's Play of the Wether * 'To Virtue Persuaded'?: The Persistent Counsels of Sir Thomas Elyot * 7: Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter * 8: The Boke Named the Governor: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy * 9: Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34 * 10: From Supremacy to Tyranny * 11: The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot * The Death of Counsel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey * 12: Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics * 13: Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires * 14: Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence' * 15: Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms * 16: 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of Resistance * 17: Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of English Poetry
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
