Overview
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. The 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 how Greville'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.
Full Product Details
Author: Russ Leo (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) ,
Katrin Röder (Lecturer in English Literature and Culture, University of Potsdam) ,
Freya Sierhuis (Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.712kg
ISBN: 9780198823445
ISBN 10: 0198823444
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 11 December 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The reader is left not only with an increased appreciation of Greville, but with enriched insight into the political and religious culture of post-Reformation England. An important addition to the literature on the period, as well as on Greville. * B.E. Brandt, CHOICE *
Author Information
Russ Leo is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Katrin Röder is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Freya Sierhuis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York.
