Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

Moul, Victoria (King's College London)

Cambridge University Press

01/2017

516

Dura

Inglês

9781107029293

15 a 20 dias

The first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, including major works by Petrarch, More and Milton. It offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and chapters devoted to individual forms. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.
Introduction: neo-Latin literature Victoria Moul; Part I. Ideas and Assumptions: 1. Conjuring with the classics: neo-Latin poets and their pagan familiars Yasmin Haskell; 2. Neo-Latin literature and the vernacular Tom Deneire; 3. How the young man should study Latin poetry: neo-Latin literature and early modern education Sarah Knight; 4. The republic of letters: across Europe and beyond Francoise Waquet; Part II. Poetry and Drama: 5. Epigram Robert Cummings; 6. Elegy L. B. T. Houghton; 7. Lyric Julia Haig Gaisser; 8. Verse letters Gesine Manuwald; 9. Verse satire Sari Kivistoe; 10. Pastoral Estelle Haan; 11. Didactic poetry Victoria Moul; 12. Epic Paul Gwynne; 13. Drama Nigel Griffin; Part III. Prose: 14. Approaching neo-Latin prose as literature Terence Tunberg; 15. Epistolary writing Jacqueline Glomski; 16. Oratory and declamation Marc van der Poel; 17. Dialogue Virginia Cox; 18. Shorter prose fiction David Marsh; 19. Longer prose fiction Stefan Tilg; 20. Prose satire Joel Relihan; 21. Historiography Felix Mundt; Part IV. Working with Neo-Latin Literature: 22. Using manuscripts and early printed books Craig Kallendorf; 23. Editing neo-Latin literature Keith Sidwell.