1st Edition
Renaissance Hybrids Culture and Genre in Early Modern England
By Gary A. Schmidt
Copyright 2013
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Gary Schmidt examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen exercised a concerted effort to frame questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. This book is unique in its exploration of how 'hybrid' literary genres emerge at... Read more
Introduction Renaissance Hybrids: Culture and Genre in Early Modern England; Chapter 1 Towards a Renaissance Theory of Hybridity; Chapter 2 Giant Aspirations: Cultural Archaeology in Spenser’s 1590, Faerie Queene; Chapter 3 The View from Ireland: Spenser in 1596; Chapter 4 Satire and Politics in the English Renaissance; Chapter 5 Jacobean Absolutism and the Rise of Tragicomedy; Chapter 6 Afterword Hybrids Past and Present: The Final Boundary;
Biography
Gary A. Schmidt
'Schmidt's book offers an illuminating exploration of the multifarious manifestations of hybridism in the English Renaissance.' Seventeenth-Century News ’In [Schmidt’s] densely researched and insightful book he offers new readings of early modern ’hybridity’ in cultural and political contexts.’ Shakespeare Jahrbuch
