Manuscript verse collectors and the politics of anti-courtly love poetry
By: Joshua Eckhardt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780199559503
Subjects: Love poetry, English -- History and criticism; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Manuscripts, English -- Collectors and collecting; Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The literary and political activity of manuscript verse collectors; title: The politics of courtly and anti-courtly love poetry in the hands of collectors; title: 'Love-song weeds, and satyrique thornes': anti-courtly love poetry and Somerset libels; title: The Spanish match and the history of sexuality; title: Verse collectors and Buckingham's assassination; title: Epilogue: redeploying anti-courtly love poetry against the Protectorate.