Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: “aut prodesse … aut delectare”
- 2 Recreating reading: Elyot's Boke Named the Governour
- 3 Heroic diversions: Sidney's Defence of Poetry
- 4 A “gentle discipline”: Spenser's Faerie Queene
- 5 Epilogue: from text to work?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: “aut prodesse … aut delectare”
- 2 Recreating reading: Elyot's Boke Named the Governour
- 3 Heroic diversions: Sidney's Defence of Poetry
- 4 A “gentle discipline”: Spenser's Faerie Queene
- 5 Epilogue: from text to work?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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- Defending Literature in Early Modern EnglandRenaissance Literary Theory in Social Context, pp. 182 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000