Barbarous Antiquity : : Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England / / Miriam Jacobson.
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction. Trafficking with Antiquity: Trade, Poetry, and Remediation
- Part I. Barbarian Invasions
- Chapter 1. Strange Language: Imported Words in Jonson's Ars Poetica
- Chapter 2. Shaping Subtlety: Sugar in The Arte of English Poesie
- Part II. Redeeming Ovid
- Chapter 3. Publishing Pain: Zero in The Rape of Lucrece
- Chapter 4. Breeding Fame: Horses and Bulbs in Venus and Adonis
- Part III. Reorienting Antiquity
- Chapter 5. On Chapman Crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: Pearls, Dyes, and Ink in Hero and Leander
- Epilogue. The Peregrinations of Barbarous Antiquity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments