Favorite sons
Subtitle: the politics and poetics of the Sidney family
By: Elizabeth Mazzola.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Political and social views.; Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Sidney, Robert, 1563-1626 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Family.; Sidney family.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.; Poetics -- History -- 16th century.; Poetics -- History -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Favorite Sons explores Sir Philip Sidney's extraordinary poetic legacy, which is closely linked to the development of the early modern family in England, both by-products of new forms of affection and secrecy, both shaped equally by pride and projection. The reasons for such connections are writ small and large by the Sidney family of writers. If family history is driven by and experienced through the logic of culture, all families are poetic projects, too, as the work of Sidney, Robert Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Mary Wroth attests."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-146) and index.