Archaic style in English literature, 1590-1674 / / Lucy Monro.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction : conceptualising archaism
- Within our own memory : old English and the early modern poet
- Chaucer, Gower, and the anxiety of obsolescence
- Archaic style in religious writing: immutability, controversy, prophecy
- Staging generations: archaism and the theatrical past
- Shepherds' speech : archaism and early Stuart pastoral drama
- Archaism and the 'English' epic
- Coda : looking backward, looking forward.