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Ben Jonson and the politics of genre / edited by A.D. Cousins and Alison V. Scott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511508240
  • 0511508247
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ben Jonson and the politics of genre.DDC classification:
  • 822.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR2642.P64 B46 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction / A.D. Cousins and Allison D. Scott -- Feigning the commonwealth : Jonson's Epigrams / A.D. Cousins -- The Jonsonian masque and the politics of decorum / Alison V. Scott -- The politics (and pairing) of Jonson's country house poems / Robert C. Evans -- Style, versatility, and the politics of the epistles / John Roe -- Jonson's politics of gender and genre : Mary Wroth and "Charis" / Marea Mitchell -- Jonson's metempsychosis revisited : patronage and religious controversy / Richard Dutton -- Jonson's humanistic tragedies / Tom Cain -- A generic prompt in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries / Eugene D. Hill.
Summary: While Ben Jonson's political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary f.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.

Introduction / A.D. Cousins and Allison D. Scott -- Feigning the commonwealth : Jonson's Epigrams / A.D. Cousins -- The Jonsonian masque and the politics of decorum / Alison V. Scott -- The politics (and pairing) of Jonson's country house poems / Robert C. Evans -- Style, versatility, and the politics of the epistles / John Roe -- Jonson's politics of gender and genre : Mary Wroth and "Charis" / Marea Mitchell -- Jonson's metempsychosis revisited : patronage and religious controversy / Richard Dutton -- Jonson's humanistic tragedies / Tom Cain -- A generic prompt in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries / Eugene D. Hill.

While Ben Jonson's political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary f.

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