Politics and literature in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII

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Politics and literature in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII

Alistair Fox

B. Blackwell, 1989

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Bibliography: p. [302]-309

Includes index

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内容説明

This book is intended to be the first comprehensive reassessment of early Tudor literature for over 30 years, covering all major authors and genres in the formative period between the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. It looks at how successive political issues impinged upon literature. Early 16th-century writing is replete with the concern to secure and retain patronage. The literature of the mid-Tudor period reflects the intellectual ascendancy of such movements as humanism. By the 1530s and 1540s religious reform occupies the centre of the literary stage. The functions of early Tudor writing are multivarious. Some express thoughts and emotions stemming from authors' private lives. Yet Tudor literature was also used allegorically, to ariculate tendentious, even treasonable, views. Hawe in the "Conforte of Louers" uses the conventional forms of courtly love to warn of treasonous plots on the part of personal enemies at court, while Wyatt uses the same device to convey his grievance at losing Anne Boleyn to the King. The inextricable link between early Tudor literature and politics is starkly demonstrated by the fact that so many writers were imprisoned or executed.

目次

  • Part 1 Patronage: Literary Patronage - The System and its Obligations
  • John Skelton and the Bowge of Courte - Self-Analysis and Discovery
  • Beatus Ille - The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay
  • Patronage and Pedigree - The Dream Visions of Stephen Hawes. Part 2 Humanism: Suggestions of Mistrust - Erasmus and The Praise of Folly
  • Paradoxical Equivocation - The Self-Subversiveness of Thomas More's Utopia
  • Facts and Fantasies - Thomas More and Tudor Historiography. Part 3 The Cardinal: the Bull-Calf and Popinjay - Origins of the Quarrel between Wolsey and Skelton
  • From Allegory to Action - Skelton's Speke Parott
  • Widening the Audience - Collyn Clout, and Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?
  • The Aftermath - A Garlande of Laurell and Skelton's Later Works. Part 4 Reform and the King: Propaganda and Polemic - The Retreat
  • from Imaginative Fiction After 1525
  • Acting in the Play at Hand - The Political Role of Early Tudor Drama
  • The Unquiet Mind of Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Memento Mori - The Biblical Paraphrases of the Earl of Surrey.

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