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Author:   Richard A. McCabe (Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.768kg
ISBN:  

9780198716525

ISBN 10:   0198716524
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   04 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1: Of Followers and Friends: Problems of Definition 2: Visions of Laurel: Classical Exemplars 3: The Arts of Magnificence: Early Modern Exemplars 4: Economies of Script and Print 5: The Rhetoric of Paratexts 6: The Protocols of Presentation PART TWO: ITALIAN LITERARY PATRONAGE 7: Petrarch: The Renaissance of Patronage 8: Ariosto: Laureate or Poligrafo? 9: Tasso: Patronage and Imprisonment PART THREE: ENGLISH LITERARY PATRONAGE, 1500-1625 10: Print and Patronage in the Early Tudor Age 11: Elizabeth I and Court Patronage 12: Courts and Coteries 13: The Elizabethan Marketplace 14: Career Trajectories 15: Egerton: A Patron's 'Canon' 16: The Courts of King James and Prince Henry 17: Conclusion: Laurels Won and Lost Bibliography

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['Ungainefull Arte'] presents a coherent, historically grounded understanding of the extremely complex relationships among poet, patron, publisher, and reader (3) in Early Modern England. McCabes interest in change over time both in the careers of individuals and in the ways that politics, history, and literature intersect leads to a nuanced series of arguments that are both learned and readable. * Rachel E. Hile, The Spenser Review *

The comprehensive and multifocused scope of Ungainefull Arte gives it strength. Another welcome feature is the dismissal of simplistic ideas opposing manuscript and print presentations. ... Ungainefull Arte provides a valuable reference for studies in this area. * Cedric C. Brown, Renaissance Quarterly *

Author Information

Richard A. McCabe is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and held a Major Leverhuleme Fellowship from 2011 to 2014. He is author of Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation; The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerie Queene'; Incest, Drama, and Nature's Law 1550-1700; and Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference. He is the editor of the Penguin edition of Spenser's Shorter Poems and The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser.

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