Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation

by Greg Walker

Pioneer of early-modern literary historicism reads Medieval & early Tudor drama & poetry historically. How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere 'secondary sources' for historical analysis? This book makes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748681019
• ISBN13: 9780748681013
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"