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OverviewGreco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna-Maria Hartmann (Fellow and College Lecturer in English, Fellow and College Lecturer in English, Trinity College, Cambridge)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780198807704ISBN 10: 0198807708 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 01 March 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Mythography in Europe, 1500-1567 1.1. Renaissance Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Mythographies 1.2. Renewal from the Wellsprings of Universal Learning 1.3. The New Mythographies 2: Stephen Batman, Edmund Spenser, and Myth as an Art of Discernment 2.1. The First English Mythography and its European Source 2.2. A 'Strau[n]ge entermixed stratageme': Batman s Concept of Myth 2.3. The Imagined Gods of the Catholics and the Family of Love 2.4. The Images of the Ancient Gods 2.5. Edmund Spenser and Mythological Discernment in the Bower of Bliss 3: In memoriam Philip Sidney: Mythopoesis in Abraham Fraunce's Amintas Dale 3.1. The Structure and Textual History of Fraunce's Mythography 3.2. Fashionably Nebulous: Fraunce's Concept of Myth 3.3. Making Sidney into Myth 3.4. Lasting Images: Daphne's Story and the Ambiguity of Closure 4: Truth Lost in the River of Time: Francis Bacon, Prima Philosophia, and the Greek Fables 4.1. The Stem of the Tree of Knowledge 4.2. Parabolic Poetry: Bacon's Concept of Myth and its Kinship with Prima Philosophia 4.3. Allegory in De sapientia veterum 4.4. Greek Myth and Prima Philosophia in the Revised Division of Learning 4.5. Early English and European Readers of De sapientia veterum 5: While the Winds Breathe, Adore Echo: Henry Reynolds between Neo-Platonic and Protestant Poetics of Myth 5.1. Reynolds and 'the Forme and reall Essence of true Poësy' 5.2. Golden Fictions i: 'rauisht, and inflamed with diuine fury' 5.3. Golden Fictions ii: 'in a myste, blind and benighted' 5.4. Henry Reynolds and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 5.5. Narcissus and the Divinity of Poetry 5.6. Henry Reynolds, English Mythography, and the Divinity of Poetry 6: Gods Save the King: Alexander Ross's Civil Mythography 6.1. 'Shall not the very Gentiles condemn them?': Ross and the Church Robbers 6.2. 'Apollo and a King parallel'd': Mel Heliconium to the Rescue 6.3. Pansebeia and the Universal Function of Religion in a Commonwealth 7: Conclusion 7.1. Renaissance Theories of Myth? 7.2. Alexander Ross's Mystagogus Poeticus and What Happened Next Endmatter References IndexReviewsThe book is richly informative, a pleasure to read, and much to be recommended. * Charles Eager, The Seventeenth Century * The book is richly informative, a pleasure to read, and much to be recommended. * Charles Eager, The Seventeenth Century * Hartmann's book makes an important contribution to scholarly arguments about religion and poetry in early modern England. In particular, much work on anti-poetic English discourse takes for granted oppositions between pagan and Christian poetry that closer attention to mythography complicates. English mythography is an exemplary work of fine-grained, close textual scholarship which will interest readers across disciplinary boundaries. * Raphael Magarik, University of California, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * This is an extremely detailed and well-researched book, exploring role of myths and their reception in Renaissance culture, in all senses of that word. This topic is absolutely fundamental, yet it has been significantly understudied. Hartmann's study of English mythography is thorough and exceedingly well contextualized. She situates English mythographers within a wider European context while also offering close readings of them that reveal their distinctively English perspective. Her style is clear and refreshingly free of jargon. The committee admired the relevance and applicability of this book to a wide range of fields covered by the Sixteenth Century. * Roland H. Bainton Prize Committee * The book is richly informative, a pleasure to read, and much to be recommended. * Charles Eager, The Seventeenth Century * Hartmann's book makes an important contribution to scholarly arguments about religion and poetry in early modern England. In particular, much work on anti-poetic English discourse takes for granted oppositions between pagan and Christian poetry that closer attention to mythography complicates. English mythography is an exemplary work of fine-grained, close textual scholarship which will interest readers across disciplinary boundaries. * Raphael Magarik, University of California, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * This is an extremely detailed and well-researched book, exploring role of myths and their reception in Renaissance culture, in all senses of that word. This topic is absolutely fundamental, yet it has been significantly understudied. Hartmann's study of English mythography is thorough and exceedingly well contextualized. She situates English mythographers within a wider European context while also offering close readings of them that reveal their distinctively English perspective. Her style is clear and refreshingly free of jargon. The committee admired the relevance and applicability of this book to a wide range of fields covered by the Sixteenth Century. * Roland H. Bainton Prize Committee * Hartmanns authoritative account of the English mythographers will be of lasting value to the field as a whole. * Daniel Moss, The Spenser Review * This learned and insightful study analyses six key mythographies composed in Tudor and Stuart England [...] there is much of value in Hartmanns analysis of English mythographic writings, both for scholars of Renaissance literature and culture and for Classicists interested in the early modern reception of classical myth. * Jessica Wolfe, The Classical Review * Overall, this book is a strong contribution to reception studies and literary history and theory, both for scholarly contribution, useful at any level of scholarship and for its direct argumentative style which makes it highly accessible to undergraduates and beyond. * Kathleen Burt, Classical Journal Online * Author InformationDr Anna-Maria Hartmann is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She was previously a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also held the post of Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology at Christ Church between 2012 and 2016. She completed her doctorate in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient mythology in the Renaissance. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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