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Author Paleit, Edward

Title War, liberty, and Caesar : responses to Lucan's Bellum Ciuile, ca. 1580-1650 / Edward Paleit
Published Oxford : Oxford Unitversity Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 338 pages)
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Contents Part I. Contexts of Reading -- Lucan and humanist pedagogy -- Lucan in controversy : poetry, history, and truth -- Part II. Readings -- Lucan and the 'Caesarist' reader, ca. 1590-1610 -- Speaking to Pothinus : Lucan and 'commonwealth' drama, from The Misfortunes of Arthur to The Tragedy of Nero -- Divided readers : Lucan in mid-Jacobean England -- Thomas May and the fall of English liberty -- Ending Lucan
Summary War, Liberty and Caesar is chiefly an attempt to address aspects of early modern English literary and political culture between ca. 1580 to 1650, through the sometimes illuminating prism of the reception of a classical text. It is also a study of that text itself, through the medium of early modern engagements. It examines and interprets responses to Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile across many different forms of discourse, trying to balance an account of the cultural assumptions and practices which shaped Lucan for early modern readers with a sense of the historical specificity of individual engagements, and an evolving narrative of pre-Civil War English writing. It argues that there were many sides to reading Lucan in the period but that collectively many if not most readers used Lucan to express aspects of a troubled, changing political experience. It examines readings of Lucan by a number of important early modern English authors, including Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, Abraham Cowley, and Thomas May. The number and variety of engagements with Lucan in the period suggest it could be called an ‘age of Lucan’
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lucan, 39-65 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 16th century
Lucan, 39-65 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 17th century
Lucan, 39-65 -- Influence
Lucan, 39-65. Pharsalia.
Lucan, 39-65
SUBJECT Pharsalia (Lucan) fast
Subject English literature -- Classical influences.
Classicism in literature.
Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Classicism in literature
English literature -- Classical influences
Epic poetry, Latin
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191626210
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