Title Defending literature in early modern England : Renaissance literary theory in social context / Robert Matz.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 188 pages).
Series	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 37
	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 37.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-181) and index.
Contents	Introduction : "aut prodesse ... aut delectare" -- Recreating reading : Elyot's Boke named the governour -- Heroic diversions : Sidney's Defence of poetry -- A "gentle discipline" : Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Epilogue : from text to work?
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Summary	Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations particularly affecting the aristocracy. Alongside revisionary accounts of the work of Elyot, Sidney and Spenser, this original study engages with important theoretical work such as Pierre Bourdieu's and offers a substantial critique of New Historicist theory.
Subject	Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
	Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
	English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Social change -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Criticism -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Social change in literature.
	Renaissance -- England.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
	Literatuurtheorie.
	Sociale verandering.
	Letterkunde.
	Engels.
	Literaturtheorie.
	England.
Other Form:	Print version: Matz, Robert. Defending literature in early modern England. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521660807 (DLC) 99037797 (OCoLC)41932468
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