| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| 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’ |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lucan, 39-65 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 16th century
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Lucan, 39-65 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 17th century
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Lucan, 39-65 -- Influence
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Lucan, 39-65. Pharsalia.
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Lucan, 39-65 |
| SUBJECT |
Pharsalia (Lucan) fast |
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English literature -- Classical influences.
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Classicism in literature.
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Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Classicism in literature
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English literature -- Classical influences
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Epic poetry, Latin
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191626210 |
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019162621X |
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9780191744761 |
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019174476X |
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9781299476127 |
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1299476120 |
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