Seth Lerer

Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780521590013
• ISBN-10: 0521590019
• Artikelnr.: 21288681

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on editions and abbreviations
1. Pretexts: Chaucer's Pandarus and the origins of courtly discourse
2. The King's Pandars: performing courtiership in the 1510s
3. The King's hand: body politics in the letters of Henry VIII
4. Private quotations, public memories: Troilus and Criseyde and the politics of the manuscript anthology
5. Wyatt, Chaucer, Tottel: the verse epistle and the subjects of the courtly lyric
Notes
Index.