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Title

Fulke Greville and the culture of the English Renaissance / edited by Russ Leo, Katrin Röder and Freya Siehuis.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leo, Russ
• Röder, Katrin
• Siehuis, Freya

Description

xiii, 339 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville's complex moulding of his authorial persona as Achates to Sidney's Aeneas, and in part to the formidable complexity of his poetry and prose. This volume seeks to vindicate Greville's 'obscurity' as an intrinsic feature of his poetic thinking, and as a privileged site of interpretation. The seventeen essays shed new light on Greville's poetry, philosophy, and dramatic work. They investigate his examination of monarchy and sovereignty; grace, salvation, and the nature of evil; the power of poetry and the vagaries of desire, and they offer a reconsideration of his reputation and afterlife in his own century, and beyond. 0The volume explores the connections between poetic form and philosophy, and argues that Greville's poetic experiments and meditations on form convey penetrating, and strikingly original contributions to poetics, political thought, and philosophy. Highlighting stylistic features of his poetic style, such as his mastery of the caesura and of the feminine ending; his love of paradox, ambiguity, and double meanings; his complex metaphoricity and dense, challenging syntax, these essays reveal how0Greville's work invites us to revisit and rethink many of the orthodoxies about the culture of post-Reformation England, including the shape of political argument, and the forms and boundaries of religious belief and identity.

Subject

• Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628 > Criticism and interpretation
• Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the resources of obscurity: reappraising the work of Fulke Greville -- Part I. Philosophy and form -- Philosophical poetry: Greville and the feminine ending -- Greville's scantlings: architecture, measure, and the defence of modular poesy -- 'Aire that once was breath': breathing places and grieving spaces in the poetry of Fulke Greville -- 'Nature's freedome', the art of sovereignty and Mustapha's tragic insolubility: Fulke Greville and Jean Bodin among the Ottomans -- Centaurs of the mind: imagination and fiction-making in the work of Fulke Greville -- Part II. Faith and form -- Parody and the perversion of grace at the crux of Caelica -- Caelica and the psalms: Greville's depth -- Giordano Bruno, Fulke Greville, and the 'envious Erinyes' -- Privation, deprivation, and unprivation in Fulke Greville's Caelica -- Part III. A political career -- 'Not with the ancient, not yet with the mdoern': Greville, education, and tragedy -- Fulke Greville the Courtier: courting the ghosts of Sidney and Essex -- 'These ancient forming powers': Fulke Greville's dialectic of idolatry -- Ottoman kingship and resistance against tyranny in Fulke Greville's Mustapha -- The political world of Fulke Greville -- Part IV. Afterlives -- Writing and the hermeneutics of posthumous publication: Greville's afterlives -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke as interregnum and restoration author.

Call Number

JFE 19-3884

ISBN

• 0198823444
• 9780198823445

LCCN

2018950259

OCLC

1037062596

Title

Fulke Greville and the culture of the English Renaissance / edited by Russ Leo, Katrin Röder and Freya Siehuis.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index.

Added Author

Leo, Russ, editor.

Röder, Katrin, editor.

Siehuis, Freya, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3884