Autobiography and authorship in Renaissance verse
Autobiography and authorship in Renaissance verse: chronicles of the self Elizabeth Heale
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
ISBN: 0333773977
DDC: 821.309353
LCC: PR535
Summary:
"The advent of relatively cheap printed editions of verse in the
mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which
represented the first-person speaker as a version of the author. This
book examines the way in which writers, often seeking advancement in
their careers, harnessed the powers of verse and print for
self-promotional purposes. Close attention to the self-constructions
of these writers reveals conflicts and contradictions in available
models of the self, as well as doubts about the powers of verse to
express the inner self. Texts studied include: an extraordinary
manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne; printed verse by a
woman, Isabella Whitney; an erotic romance by George Gascoigne,
hailed as the first 'novel' in English; little-known but memorable
narratives of travel to Russia and Africa, and of the experience of
war; and more canonical works by Spenser, Sidney and
Shakespeare."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
1. 'To mak my self to be known of many': miscellanies and the
well-formed gentleman. The gentleman's miscellany: Tottel and his
imitators. Amorous narrative sequences. A woman's voice: Isabella
Whitney -- 2. The 'outward marks' and the 'inward man': Thomas
Whythorne's 'songs and sonetts'. 'The lyf of A water spannell'. 'To
mak my self to be known of many' -- 3. Narratives of experience. The
mean estate. 'Pitie the tale of me'. Soldiers' tales. 'Travailing'
abroad: the writer as adventurer. Colin Clovts Come Home Againe -- 4.
Spenser as Orpheus. Civility. Civility and language. Amoretti.
Epithalamion -- 5. Passionate ejaculations and the poetics of
presence: Gascoigne's 'The Adventures of Master F. J.' and Sidney's
Astrophil and Stella. 'A straunge discourse of some intollerable
passion'. 'The Adventures of Master F. J.'. The 'feeling skill' of
Astrophil -- 6. 'My name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Language: eng
Physical Description: viii, 206 p. ; 23 cm.
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