The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521034876
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--; European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Edmund Spenser summed up the aspirations of a class and an age when he described, in the Faerie Queene (I, v, 1, 1-4), the state of mind of the Redcrosse Knight on the eve of a great tournament: The noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought,