Dire Straits : : The Perils of Writing the Early Modern English Coastline from Leland to Milton / / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy.
England became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers - acutely aware of their inhabiting an island - often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical trad...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. The Imperatives of Humanism: Early Modern English Shorelines under Quarantine
- Chapter Two. Lurid Shorelines: Mapping Spenser's Queen Elizabeth in Ariosto's Hebrides
- Chapter Three. Ever-Receding Shorelines: Antiquarian Poetry and Prose and the Limits of Shakespeare's Coastal Dramatic Verse
- Chapter Four. Exiled Shorelines: Early Milton and the Rejection of the Mare Ovidianum
- Chapter Five. Coda: Exiting the Shadow of Ultima Britannia in Paradise Lost
- Bibliography
- Index