Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII

Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII: literary culture and the arts of deceit

by Lerer, Seth

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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the cou…

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  • Full title :Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII : literary culture and the arts of deceit / Seth Lerer.

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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction of subjectivity.

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  • Publication Date:1997.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0585030103, 9780585030104, 9780521590013, 0521590019, 0511582005, 9780511582004, 0511000820, 9780511000829
  • oclc:ocm42854421
  • LC Classification:PR418.P65
  • Dewey Decimal:820.9/003

Table of Contents

1. Pretexts: Chaucer's Pandarus and the origins of courtly discourse -- 2. The King's Pandars: performing courtiership in the 1510s -- 3. The King's hand: body politics in the letters of Henry VIII -- 4. Private quotations, public memories: Troilus and Criseyde and the politics of the manuscript anthology -- 5. Wyatt, Chaucer, Tottel: the verse epistle and the subjects of the courtly lyric.

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Subjects

1500 - 1700 Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400) Civilisation médiévale dans la littérat… Civilization, Medieval, in literature Cour et courtisans -- Dans la littératu… Cour et courtisans -- Histoire -- 16e s… Cours et courtisans dans la littérature Courts and courtiers Courts and courtiers in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Deception in literature Electronic books Engels England Englisch English literature -- Early modern English literature -- History and criti… Geschichte 1509-1547 Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1509-154…

Writers

Lerer, Seth

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