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Author:   Greg Walker (, Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.877kg
ISBN:  

9780199231973

ISBN 10:   0199231974
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   06 September 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry VIII's England Poetry and the Culture of Counsel: The 1532 iWorkes of Geffray Chaucer/i and John Heywood's iPlay of the Wether/i 2: A Gift for Henry VIII 3: The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early 1530s 4: Reading Chaucer in 1532 5: Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha 6: Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's iPlay of the Wether/i 'To Virtue Persuaded'?: The Persistent Counsels of Sir Thomas Elyot 7: Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter 8: iThe Boke Named the Governor/i: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy 9: Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34 10: From Supremacy to Tyranny 11: The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot The Death of Counsel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 12: Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics 13: Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires 14: Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence' 15: Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms 16: 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of Resistance 17: Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of English Poetry

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Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition.... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. --Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books<br> Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history ... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. --Journal of British Studies<br> A new book by Greg Walker...is a major event. --Reviews in History<br> Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics in a compelling work.... This is an actively engaging book, required reading for anyone interested in the relation between literature and politics, and a welcome addition to the ranks of intellectual history. --Alessandra Petrina, Renaissance Quarterly<br> A monumental achievement that furthers our understanding of an area that Walker has done much to illuminate over the years. The careful and scrupulous analysis of a whole range of texts that deserve to be better known, and more meticulously read, has resulted in a serious, scholarly and, in places, profound work, well written throughout. --Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement<br>

<br> Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition.... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. --Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books<p><br> Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history ... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. --Journal of British Studies<p><br> A new book by Greg Walker...is a major event. --Reviews in History<p><br> Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics in a compelling work.... This is an actively engaging book, required readi

Review from previous edition Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. Journal of British Studies A new book by Greg Walker... is a major event. Reviews in History ... an exceptionally good book... will surely remain an important work Lucy Wooding, English Historical Review Walker's ability to invoke very specific points of reference in clarifying the contemporary significance of his texts is ... remarkable ... This is an important book, which deserves to have a profound influence upon the ways in which we understand the literature of the Henrician period. Roderick J. Lyall, Cahiers Elisabethains Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics... in a compelling work ... This is an actively engaging book, required reading for anyone interested in the relation between literature and politics, and a welcome addition to the ranks of intellectual history. Alessandra Petrina, Renaissance Quarterly Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books ... a monumental achievement that furthers our understanding of an area that Walker has done much to illuminate over the years. The careful and scrupulous analysis of a whole range of texts that deserve to be better known, and more meticulously read, has resulted in a serious, scholarly and, in places, profound work, well written throughout. Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement

Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition.... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. --Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history ... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. --Journal of British Studies A new book by Greg Walker...is a major event. --Reviews in History Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics in a compelling work.... This is an actively engaging book, required reading for anyone interested in the relation between literature and politics, and a welcome addition to the ranks of intellectual history. --Alessandra Petrina, Renaissance Quarterly A monumental achievement that furthers our understanding of an area that Walker has done much to illuminate over the years. The careful and scrupulous analysis of a whole range of texts that deserve to be better known, and more meticulously read, has resulted in a serious, scholarly and, in places, profound work, well written throughout. --Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement

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