The Raven and the Lark: Lost Children in Literature of the English Renaissance - Hardcover

The raven and the lark : lost children in literature of the English Renaissance / Barbara L. Estrin

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 228 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index. Contents; The affinities of kind: the literary formula -- The affinities of kind: the Renaissance context -- Finders keepers: preservation and the legendary foundling -- Finding and losing "beaulté and noblesse": adoption in Malory's Works -- Transformation in Sidney's Old Arcadia -- Spenserian hesitation: Two irreconcilable foundlings: the love story and the saint story in book 1 of The faerie queene -- Two creations: succession and generation in books 3 through 5 of The faerie queene -- Two recreations: Pastorella's return and the poet's emergence in book 6 of The faerie queene -- Shakespearean explorations: Richard III and Genesis 4 -- Romeo, Juliet, and the art of naming love -- A womanly discovery: Earned reprieve in The comedy of errors and Pericles -- The dream of a better life in As you like it and Antony and Cleopatra -- A manly loss: Hamlet's story; or, The child's refusal to man the father -- A world within: found enclosure and final exposure in King Lear -- Becoming the story in The winter's tale -- Telling the story in The tempest -- The findings of loss. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Characters. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Characters. 1500-1700. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Domestic drama, English History and criticism. Abandoned children in literature. Missing children in literature.Parent and child in literature. Foundlings in literature. Children in literature. Orphans in literature. Renaissance England. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 425943

Verkäufer kontaktieren