The Anonymous Renaissance
Subtitle: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226594385
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 16th century; Anonymous writings, English; Authorship; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Social aspects; Literary Criticism
First sentence: In a literary history that Virginia Woolf left unfinished at her death, she marks the beginning of English literature with the authorial figure "Anon," a medieval minstrel signing in the vernacular at England's back door.