Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England

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"This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England "poetry" (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was "juvenilia" - a youthful exercise that one gave up as one took one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a "career" as a writer of poetry or fiction was
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"This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England "poetry" (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was "juvenilia" - a youthful exercise that one gave up as one took one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a "career" as a writer of poetry or fiction was virtually inconceivable. It is the purpose of this study to suggest how such a career finally became conceivable at this historical moment by examining the ways each of these authors managed to negotiate a relationship to writing that enabled them to mature into adulthood, not only without relinquishing their writing, but actually by means of the self-scrutiny and social interaction enabled by that writing." This study also investigates some of the many cultural inflections of manhood in Elizabethan England - both in the relationship of fathers to sons and the relationship of men to women.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780874138580
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/2004
  • Pages: 200

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 13
1 "What thing so precious as wit?": John Lyly's Euphues Works 28
2 "I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court 47
3 "I call it praise to suffer tyrannie": Sidney's (Anti) Courtly Works 65
4 "To serve your prince by...an honest dissimulation": The New Arcadia as a Defense of Poetry 89
5 "He who cannot dissemble, cannot live": Robert Green's Romances 112
6 "I may terme my selfe a writer": Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry 127
Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass 149
Notes 157
Bibliography 187
Index 195
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