簡介
This book reassesses Renaissance English literature and its place in Elizabethan society. It examines, in particular, the role of Italianate literary imitation in addressing the ethical and political issues of the sixteenth century.
目錄
Acknowledgements. Introduction.
1. The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics.
2. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Onset of English Petrarchism.
3. Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self.
4. Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser, Sidney, and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral.
5. Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto, Tasso, and The Faerie Queene.
6. Appraising 'The Seeming Truths' of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.
