French connections in the English Renaissance

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Label

French connections in the English Renaissance

Statement of responsibility

edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis, USA ; Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Creator

• Martin, Catherine Gimelli

Contributor

• Melehy, Hassan, 1960-

Editor

• Martin, Catherine Gimelli
• Melehy, Hassan, 1960-

Subject

• English literature -- French influences
• French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
• French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
• French literature -- English influences
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

The study of literature still tends to be nation-based, even when direct evidence contradicts longstanding notions of an autonomous literary canon. In a time when current events make inevitable the acceptance of a global perspective, the essays in this volume suggest a corrective to such scholarly limitations: the contributors offer alternatives to received notions of "influence" and the more or less linear transmission of translatio studii, demonstrating that they no longer provide adequate explanations for the interactions among the various literary canons of the Renaissance. Offering texts on a variety of aspects of the Anglo-French Renaissance instead of concentrating on one set of borrowings or phenomena, this collection points to new configurations of the relationships among national literatures. Contributors address specific borrowings, rewritings, and appropriations of French writing by English authors, in fields ranging from lyric poetry to epic poetry to drama to political treatise.--

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Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9003

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography