TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matz,Robert
TI  - Defending literature in early modern England: Renaissance literary theory in social context 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
SN  - 0511008570
AV  - PR418.S64 M38 2000eb
U1  - 801/.95/094209031 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Social change
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Social change in literature
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Critique
KW  - Changement social dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Literaturtheorie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatuurtheorie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociale verandering
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Engels
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-181) and index; Introduction : "aut prodesse ... aut delectare" -- Recreating reading : Elyot's Boke named the governour -- Heroic diversions : Sidney's Defence of poetry -- A "gentle discipline" : Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Epilogue : from text to work?
N2  - Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations particularly affecting the aristocracy. Alongside revisionary accounts of the work of Elyot, Sidney and Spenser, this original study engages with important theoretical work such as Pierre Bourdieu's and offers a substantial critique of New Historicist theory
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