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The English Renaissance: Identity and Representationin Elizabethan England
ISBN: 978-0-631-19029-5
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256 pages
November 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics.

2. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Onset of English Petrarchism.

3. Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self.

4. Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser, Sidney, and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral.

5. Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto, Tasso, and The Faerie Queene.

6. Appraising 'The Seeming Truths' of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.