Explore Archaic Style In English Literature, 1590-1674 Curated By Lucy Munro Classified In Readable Copy

Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists betweenand.
It focuses on the wideranging, complex and selfconscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in order to reembody and reshape the past.
Munro brings together scholarly conversations on temporality, memory and historiography, on the relationships between medieval and early modern literary cultures, on the workings of dramatic and poetic style, and on national history and identity.
Neither pure anachronism nor pure nostalgia, the attempts of writers to reconstruct outmoded styles within their own works reveal a largely untold story about the workings of literary influence and tradition, the interactions between past and present, and the uncertain contours of English nationhood.
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