Renaissance Papers 2020: 25 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 164014112X ISBN 13: 9781640141124

Publisher: Camden House, 2021

Synopsis

Collection of the best scholarly essays from the 2020 Southeastern Renaissance Conference plus essays submitted directly to the journal. Topics run from the epic to influence studies to the perennial problem of love and beyond. Renaissance Papers 2020 features essays from the conference held virtually at Mercer University, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with an essay that discusses the "ultimate story," the epic, and argues, pointing to the Henriad and The Faerie Queen, that some of the most ambitious remain unfinished; an essay on "just war" and Henry V follows, suggesting why such epic inconclusion may not be such a bad thing. A trio of influence studies investigate post-Marian virginity, Miltonic environmentalism, and cross-dressing knights. Three essays then interrogate the perennial problem of love: in popular ballads, in Hero and Leander, and in The Rape of Lucrece. An essay argues counterintuitively for Amelia Lanyer and Margaret Cavendish as exemplars of the Cavalier Ideal of the Bonum Vitae; it is followed by an equally provocative reconsideration of the role of Claudio D'Arezzo's rhetorical works for Sicilian national identity. The last essay analyzes the formal signatures of three sixteenth-century queens and how they sought to represent themselves on the public stage.

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About the Authors

WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University.

JIM PEARCE is retired as Professor of English at North Carolina Central University.

WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.

TIMOTHY PYLES is Associate Professor of Literature and Theatre and Director of Theatre at Marywood University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164014112X
• ISBN 13: 9781640141124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154
• Editor: Risvold Professor Ward J., Pearce Jim, Fling Professor Holly E., Given Professor William