Common : the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England / Neil Rhodes.
2018
Z1003.5
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Title
Common : the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England / Neil Rhodes.
Author
Rhodes, Neil, 1953- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191822568 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
Z1003.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
028.9094209031
Summary
This volume explores the development of literary culture in 16th-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions between democracy and the imagination which persist throughout the century.
Note
This volume explores the development of literary culture in 16th-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions between democracy and the imagination which persist throughout the century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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