University of Wisconsin Press, 1991 Paper: 978-0-299-09954-1
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Annabel Patterson explores the effects of censorship on both writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies and connections with France during the same period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
“Under … pretty tales”: Intention in Sidney's Arcadia
2
Prynne's Ears; or, The Hermeneutics of Censorship
Reading Sejanus: ciphers and forbidden books
“Betweene our sentence and our powre”: King Lear and the double text
“What th' Spanish-treaty meant”: the drama of Opposition
Philip Massinger: some repressions of our own
“Take heed what you hear”: Donne's ambiguous prose
The case of William Prynne
Thomas Carew: a “previledged Scoffer”?
Areopagitica: “those fabulous Dragon's teeth”
3
Lyric and Society
Cries and Whispers: self-expression in Jonson's Under-Wood
“All the radiant Monsters”: Abraham Cowley's Pindarique Odes
4
The Royal Romance
Renaissance romance theory
Charles I as romancer
John Milton: romance in disgrace
Barclay's Argenis: The Key and the Cabinet
Mlle. de Scudéry and the “Wars of the Closet”
The Royal Romances
5
Letters to Friends: The Self in Familiar Form
James Howell: “Doctor of Letters”
Restoration letter-writers: the case for natural genre
Afterwords: Three Sidneys, John Dryden, and JeanJacques Rousseau
Notes
Index
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you
with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.