228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Though printer Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical perspectives, the eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the many ways that... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Songes and Sonettes reconsidered, Stephen Hamrick; Printing history and editorial design in the Elizabethan version of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Paul A. Marquis; Profit and pleasure? The real economy of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Catherine Bates; Tottel’s Troy, Alex Davis; Chaucer’s presence in Songes and Sonettes, Amanda Holton; Songes and Sonettes, 1557, Peter C. Herman; Songes and Sonettes and Shakespeare’s poetry, Tom MacFaul; Cultivation and inhumation: some thoughts on the cultural impact of Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes, Seth Lerer; ’Their Gods in verses’: the popular reception of Songes and Sonettes, 1557-1674, Stephen Hamrick; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Stephen Hamrick is Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA.
’...a very stimulating volume, which will certainly encourage scholars to return to this ’Book of Riddles’ (131).’ Notes and Queries ’...these essays offer a range of illuminating new views on a work which was something of a publishing phenomenon’ Publishing History '[This book] offers a useful and critically informed survey of the miscellany's position in criticism so far ... [the essays approach] Tottel's Miscellany from many different angles in textual, sociological, intertextual, or historical readings.' Spenser Review
