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- catalog abstract ""This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England "poetry" (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was "juvenilia"--A youthful exercise that one gave up as one took one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a "career" as a writer of poetry or fiction was virtually inconceivable. It is the purpose of this study to suggest how such a career finally became conceivable at this historical moment by examining the ways each of these authors managed to negotiate a relationship to writing that enabled them to mature into adulthood, not only without relinquishing their writing, but actually by means of the self-scrutiny and social interaction enabled by that writing." "This study also investigates some of the many cultural inflections of manhood in Elizabethan England - both in the relationship of fathers to sons and the relationship of men to women."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13229321.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England "poetry" (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was "juvenilia"--A youthful exercise that one gave up as one took one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a "career" as a writer of poetry or fiction was virtually inconceivable.".
- catalog description ""What thing so precious as wit?": John Lyly's Euphues Works -- "I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court -- "I call it praise to suffer tyrannie": Sidney's (Anti) Courtly Works -- "To serve your prince by ... an honest dissimulation": The New Arcadia as a Defense of Poetry -- "He who cannot dissemble, cannot live": Robert Greene's Romances -- "I may terme my selfe a writer": Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry -- Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.".
- catalog description "It is the purpose of this study to suggest how such a career finally became conceivable at this historical moment by examining the ways each of these authors managed to negotiate a relationship to writing that enabled them to mature into adulthood, not only without relinquishing their writing, but actually by means of the self-scrutiny and social interaction enabled by that writing." "This study also investigates some of the many cultural inflections of manhood in Elizabethan England - both in the relationship of fathers to sons and the relationship of men to women."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "197 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sons and authors in Elizabethan England.".
- catalog identifier "0874138582 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sons and authors in Elizabethan England.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Sons and authors in Elizabethan England.".
- catalog subject "823/.309 22".
- catalog subject "English fiction Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Authorship History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Lyly, John, 1554?-1606 Fictional works.".
- catalog subject "PR836 .A45 2004".
- catalog subject "Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 Fictional works.".
- catalog subject "Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 Fictional works.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""What thing so precious as wit?": John Lyly's Euphues Works -- "I would faine serve": John Lyly's Career at Court -- "I call it praise to suffer tyrannie": Sidney's (Anti) Courtly Works -- "To serve your prince by ... an honest dissimulation": The New Arcadia as a Defense of Poetry -- "He who cannot dissemble, cannot live": Robert Greene's Romances -- "I may terme my selfe a writer": Cony-Catchers and Greene's Defense of Poetry -- Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass.".
- catalog title "Sons and authors in Elizabethan England / Derek B. Alwes.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".