1st Edition
Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature
By Alison Chapman
Copyright 2013
254 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
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This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that... Read more
Chapter 1: The Patrons of Heaven and Earth Chapter 2: National Saints and The Faerie Queene Chapter 3: Jonson’s Hagiographic Parody Chapter 4: Saints, Guilds, and Players in Shakespeare’s Histories Chapter 5: Drayton, the Middle Ages, and the Genii Loci Chapter 6: Donne’s Hagiographic Tolerance Chapter 7: Milton and the Border Saints Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Alison Chapman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, US.
