Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640 by Ga

by Gavin Alexander

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Writing after Sidney by Gavin Alexander Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth. Publisher Description Writing After Sidney examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), author of the Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella, and The Defence of Poesy, and the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely both at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his nieceMary Wroth. At the same time as these authors wrote their own works in response to Sidney they presented his life and writings to the world, and were shaped by other writers as his literary and political heirs. Readings of these fivecentral authors are embedded in a more general study of the literary and cultural scene in the years after Sidney s death, examining the work of such writers as Spenser, Jonson, Daniel, Drayton, and Herbert. The study uses a wide range of manuscript and printed sources, and key use is made of perspectives from Renaissance literary theory, e

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2007
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199285471
• Condition: Fine

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