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Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros

Autor: Cheney, Patrick (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Oxford University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysi...

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Autor
Cheney, Patrick (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2025
Pagini
320
EAN
9780198871200
Enbook ID
48340197
Editura
Oxford University Press
Greutate
608
Dimensiuni
138 x 216

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Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in English Renaissance culture. The absence of such a study in the fields of literature and geography is surprising: from its captivating origin in the oceanic margins of Homer''s Odyssey to its presence in the Eden of Milton''s Paradise Lost, Elysium is a destination to be desired: it is the land of the blessed. As such, Elysium becomes a geographical site for an author''s most valued space. In Britannia, Camden provides leadership for this project by citing Plutarch as locating the blessed place in Britain. Following Camden, Spenser centralizes the idea of Britain as Elysium. Subsequently, English authors make the Elysian place the site of a liberating sublimity as the height of artistic renown. This authorial template becomes the site for literary inflections in the realms of politics, theology, and eros. However, Kyd and Marlowe darken the Spenserian project, recalling Virgil''s geographical positioning of Elysium next to Hell. In turn, Drayton, Chapman, and Marston champion the Spenserian idea of Britain as Elysium. As this conversation suggests, English authors make Elysium the central place of the ''Renaissance'' period concept, and they do so in the nation-building genre of epic. In The Muses Elizium, Drayton crowns the Spenserian tradition by making the blessed place the monomyth of national poetry. At the centre of the monomyth is the cherished ideal of Renaissance culture: the Elysian capacity of the human to become divine.

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