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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2021
      July 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108767484
      9781108487627
      9781108720717
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767484
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 160 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 298 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 298 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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    The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere topicality, she identifies the ingenuity, novelty and audacity of the period's poetry as the political inverse of censorship culture. Considering Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton and Wharton among many others, the book explains how free speech was extended into the growing domain of English letters, and thereby presents a new model of the relationship between early modern poetry and political philosophy.

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    'This is a truly excellent study. I am not sure there is anyone else who has Heather James's particular combination of critical gifts: here we see reading and writing with great purpose and freshness, clear and flexible thinking shedding new light on well-known texts and connections, and a strong and original argument that proceeds so smoothly and generously that it changes your mind decisively almost without you realising it.'

    Raphael Lyne - University of Cambridge

    ‘An erudite, pathbreaking achievement … Highly recommended.’

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