| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
ReFormations : medieval and early modern
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Reformations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Medieval traditions of writing rural labor -- The invention of the English eclogue -- The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism -- Transforming work : the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition -- Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor -- Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Afterword : The secret history of pastoral. |
| Summary |
Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as the author demonstrates in this book, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor. The author offers a literary history for the pastoral, arguing that the authors of the first English pastorals used rural laborers familiar from medieval texts -- plowmen and shepherds -- to reflect on the social, economic, and religious disruptions of the sixteenth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Pastoral poetry, English. |
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval -- Influence.
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Literature, Medieval -- Influence. |
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Literature, Medieval. |
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History. |
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English poetry -- Early modern. |
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Englisch. |
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Hirtendichtung. |
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Lyrik. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Little, Katherine C., 1969- Transforming work. 9780268033873 0268033870 (DLC) 2013000467 |
| ISBN |
0268085706 (electronic book) |
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9780268085704 (electronic book) |
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9780268085902 (electronic book) |
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0268085900 (electronic book) |
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9780268033873 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0268033870 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
ebc3441129 |
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