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Dire straits the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton

Title
Dire straits [electronic resource] : the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy.
Author
Bellamy, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane)
Publication
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2013

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 204 p.) : ill., digital file.
Summary
By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.
Uniform Title
  • Dire straits (Online)
  • Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Alternative Title
Dire straits (Online)
Subject
  • English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Coasts in literature
  • Cartography in literature
  • Landscapes in literature
  • England > In literature
Note
  • Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in print version.
System Details (note)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents
  • 1 The Imperatives of Humanism: Early Modern English Shorelines under Quarantine. 1 Spectral Geographies and the Coastline -- 2 From Anachronism to Belatedness: Medieval English Coastlines before Humanism -- 3 Philautus's Nausea -- 4 'Profounde' Navigators, 'Vnlettered' Coasters, and the Fortunate Isles -- 5 Antiquity's Apeiron -- 6 Poetry and Place, Time and Tide, and Coasts 'with no measures grac'd' --
  • 2 Lurid Shorelines: Mapping Spenser's Queen Elizabeth in Ariosto's Hebrides. 1 'compassed with one Sea' -- 2 Poet, Royal Patron, Ultima Britannia -- 3 The Turn to Literary History: Mapping Spenser's Faerie Seacoast via Ariosto -- 4 Cymoent's Lyrical Mediterranean, Marinell's Terror-Coast -- 5 Local Rivers, Local Shores in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe -- 6 Prophecy as Slander: Britomart's Thames, Paridell's Briton Seacoast -- 7 North by Northwest: Ariosto's Ptolemaic Hebrides -- 8 Reading Spenser Reading Ariosto's Hebrides --
  • 3 Ever-Receding Shorelines: Antiquarian Poetry and Prose and the Limits of Shakespeare's Coastal Dramatic Verse. 1 Antiquarianism at the Water's Edge -- 2 Shakespeare's Coastal Legerdemain -- 3 From Henry IV to Henry V : Chorographic Nationalism and Coastal Provinciality -- 4 Antiquarianism's Paradoxical Embrace of Ultima Britannia -- 5 Cymbeline's Irreconcilable Shorelines -- 6 Of 'swan's nests,' River Poetry, and Antiquarian Prose, 1545-1610 -- 7 Losing Perspective on the Ever-Receding Rocky Coast --
  • 4 Exiled Shorelines: Early Milton and the Rejection of the Mare Ovidianum. 1 'Love your Naso's name . . . -- 2 Poetry, Place, and the Mare Ovidianum -- 3 Tomitan Ovid: Writing a Pontic Epic on the Apeiron -- 4 Rejecting the Pose of Ovidian Exile -- 5 'At last he twitch't his mantle': Lycidas and Milton's 'Writing' of Local Coastlines -- 6 The Londini Milto, Mansus, and the Thames -- 7 Milton, Horace, and Ovid in Geneva --
  • 5 Coda : Exiting the Shadow of Ultima Britannia in Paradise Lost.
OCLC
ssj0001150885
Author
Bellamy, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane)
Title
Dire straits [electronic resource] : the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy.
Imprint
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2013 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013).
Series
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
Other Form:
Print version 1442645016 9781442645011 (DLC) 2013409555
LCCN
2013409555 (print)
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