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Georgia Brown analyzes the period’s obsession with shame as both a literary theme and a conscious authorial position. She explores the related obsession of this generation of authors with fragmentary and marginal forms of expression, such as the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence and complaint. Combining recent developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts new light on the wholesale eroticization of Elizabethan literary culture, the form and meaning of Englishness, the function of gender and sexuality in establishing literary authority, and the contexts of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney. This study will be of great interest to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as cultural history and gender studies.  \ngeorgia brown has been a lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She has lectured at universities in Greece, Switzerland, Poland and the United States, and has published essays on Marlowe, Spenser, Queen Elizabeth I, Renaissance embroidery and teaching theepyllion.  \nREDEFINING  \nELIZABETHAN LITERATURE  \nGEORGIA BROWN  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo  \nCambridge University Press  \nThe Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York [www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title: www.cambridge.org/9780521831239](title: www.cambridge.org/9780521831239)  \n© Georgia E. Brown 2004  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published in print format 2004  \nISBN-13 978-0-511-26454-2 eBook (EBL)  \nISBN-10 0-511-26454-2 eBook (EBL)  \nISBN-13 978-0-521-83123-9 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-83123-7 hardback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements page vii  \n1 Introduction 1  \nThe generation of shame 1  \nTheories of shame 6  \nExcess, superfluity and redundancy: redefining the function of prodigality in cultural reform 18  \nRegistering change in the formal interests of texts 26  \nOrnamentality and literariness 32  \nRereading Ovid in the 1590s 36  \n2 Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of  \nprofessional authorship 53  \nWaste paper 53  \nRedefining waste 60  \nThe “out-landish Chronicler” 65  \nEsprit de corps 75  \nThe most literary of literary forms: the paradoxical encomium 81  \nRestructuring reading in the generation of shame 86  \nShame and the anxieties of the subject 92  \nConclusion 97  \n3 Literature as fetish 102  \nThe epyllion and the eroticization of Elizabethan literary culture 102  \nShaping a sense of literary community 109  \nRites of passage 116  \nThe politics of the “Brothell Muse” 129  \nSexual transgression and the mapping of aesthetic space 134  \nEffeminized authority 154  \nBlushing and the defense of publication 166  \nConclusion 174  \nvi Contents  \n4 Shame and the subject of history 178  \nRecovering the particularities of England 178  \nThe problem of proper English style 184  \nPlaining, counter-history and aesthetics 192  \nLaureates of shame: defining public and private space 207  \nEpistolary form and the interrogation of the poetics of shame 213  \nConclusion 222  \nEpilogue 224  \nForms ","cbCaik95aFRPUJ3r","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik95aFRPUJ3r","pdf",1926791,271,"English","# Contents\n## 1 Introduction\n## 2 Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship\n## 3 Literature as fetish\n## 4 Shame and the subject of history\n## Epilogue\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What period and focus does the book study?\",\"answer\":\"The book studies the 1590s and examines new definitions of literature and authorship that developed in that decade.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author connect shame to literature and authorship?\",\"answer\":\"Georgia Brown shows that shame functioned both as a literary theme and as a conscious authorial position shaping expression and authority.\"},{\"question\":\"Which literary forms and authors are discussed in the analysis?\",\"answer\":\"The study analyzes fragmentary and marginal forms including the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence, and complaint, and it considers contexts for works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Sidney.\"}]","Redefining Elizabethan Literature - Book Study - English | PDF",1789983888,417]