Common: the Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

Common: the Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
ISBN-10
0198704100
ISBN-13
9780198704102
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2018-04-26
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Neil Rhodes

Description

This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole. Beginning with Erasmus's first visit to the country in 1499 and ending in the year of Hamlet a century later, it seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the Elizabethan literary renaissance in the later part of the period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues thatmaking common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its centralquestion is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?'

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