Dire straits : the perils of writing the early modern English coastline from Leland to Milton /
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| Author / Creator: | Bellamy, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane) |
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| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2013. |
| Description: | viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9127688 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Imperatives of Humanism: Early Modern English Shorelines under Quarantine
- 1. Spectral Geographies and the Coastline
- 2. From Anachronism to Belatedness: Medieval English Coastlines before Humanism
- 3. Philautus's Nausea
- 4. 'Profounde' Navigators, 'Vnlettered' Coasters, and the Fortunate Isles
- 5. Antiquity's Apeiron
- 6. Poetry and Place, Time and Tide, and Coasts 'with no measures grac'd'
- 2. Lurid Shorelines: Mapping Spenser's Queen Elizabeth in Ariosto's Hebrides
- 1. 'compassed with one Sea'
- 2. Poet, Royal Patron, Ultima Britannia
- 3. The Turn to Literary History: Mapping Spenser's Faerie Seacoast via Ariosto
- 4. Cymoent's Lyrical Mediterranean, Marinell's Terror-Coast
- 5. Local Rivers, Local Shores in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- 6. Prophecy as Slander: Britomart's Thames, Paridell's Briton Seacoast
- 7. North by Northwest: Ariosto's Ptolemaic Hebrides
- 8. Reading Spenser Reading Ariosto's Hebrides
- 3. Ever-Receding Shorelines: Antiquarian Poetry and Prose and the Limits of Shakespeare's Coastal Dramatic Verse
- 1. Antiquarianism at the Water's Edge
- 2. Shakespeare's Coastal Legerdemain
- 3. From Henry IV to Henry V: Chorographic Nationalism and Coastal Provinciality
- 4. Antiquarianism's Paradoxical Embrace of Ultima Britannia
- 5. Cymbeline's Irreconcilable Shorelines
- 6. Of 'swan's nests,' River Poetry, and Antiquarian Prose, 1545-1610
- 7. Losing Perspective on the Ever-Receding Rocky Coast
- 4. Exiled Shorelines: Early Milton and the Rejection of the Mare Ovidianum
- 1. 'Love your Naso's name ...'
- 2. Poetry, Place, and the Mare Ovidianum
- 3. Tomitan Ovid: Writing a Pontic Epic on the Apeiron
- 4. Rejecting the Pose of Ovidian Exile
- 5. 'At last he twitch't his mantle': Lycidas and Milton's 'Writing' of Local Coastlines
- 6. The Londini Milto, Mansus, and the Thames
- 7. Milton, Horace, and Ovid in Geneva
- 5. Coda: Exiting the Shadow of Ultima Britannia in Paradise Lost
- Bibliography
- Index
