The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700


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Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2: Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of family members -Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke - in the genres of prose romance, drama, poetry, psalms and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.




The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700


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Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature-indeed, to the arts generally-as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on family members and their impact, as historical and literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 1: Lives, begins with an overview of the Sidneys and politics, providing some links to court events, entertainments, literature, and patronage. The volume gives biographies to prominent high-profile Sidney women and men, as well as sections assessing the influence of the family in the areas of the English court, international politics, patronage, religion, public entertainment, the visual arts, and music. The focus of the second volume is the literary contributions of Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.




The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700


Book Description

Presented in two volumes, this Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2, Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of select family members in the genres of romance, drama, poetry, psalms, and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.










The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700


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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: Volume 1 -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology -- The Sidney Family Tree -- Part I Overview -- 1 Family Networks: The Sidneys, Dudleys, and Herberts -- Part II Biographies -- 2 Sir Henry Sidney (1529-1586) -- 3 Lady Mary Dudley Sidney (c. 1531-1586) and Her Siblings -- 4 Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- 5 Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Countess of Pembroke -- 6 Those Essex Girls: The Lives and Letters of Lettice Knollys, Penelope Rich, Dorothy Perrott Percy, and Frances Walsingham -- 7 The Life of Robert Sidney (1563-1626), First Earl of Leicester -- 8 Barbara Gamage Sidney (c. 1562-1621), Countess of Leicester, Elizabeth Sidney Manners (1585-1612), Countess of Rutland, and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth (1587-1651) -- 9 Robert Sidney (1595-1677), Second Earl of Leicester -- 10 A Triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland -- 11 Algernon Sidney's Life and Works (1623-1683) -- 12 Henry Sidney (1641-1704), Earl of Romney, and Robert Spencer (1641-1702), Second Earl of Sunderland -- Part III The Sidneys in Ireland and Wales -- 13 The Sidneys in Ireland -- 14 The Sidneys and Wales -- Part IV The Sidneys and the Continent -- 15 The Sidneys and the Continent: The Tudor Period -- 16 The Sidneys and the Continent: The Stuart Period -- Part V The Sidneys and the Arts -- 17 The Sidneys and Public Entertainments -- 18 The Sidneys and Literary Patronage -- 19 Penshurst Place and Leicester House -- 20 The Sidneys and the Visual Arts -- 21 The Sidneys and Music -- Index




Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent


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Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other genealogical concepts to talk about authorship, family, selfhood, and memory. In turn, both Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth also shaped their works in relation to the ways in which writers within their familial communities and literary coteries constructed them as Sidneys, heirs, descendants, and future ancestors, in genres ranging from the patronage dedication and pastoral eclogue to mythographic genealogia and georgic poetry. In the intersection of ancestry, death, sexuality, and reproduction, the book contends that Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth develop their authorship within the simultaneous rigidity and flexibility of their world’s genealogical discourses.




The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe


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'Democratization' is a concept often used in academic book titles, yet not many of them deal with the initial breakthrough of democratization. This research companion presents an alternative view to the widespread assumption that Western democracies should be the normative reference for the study of democratization elsewhere. Rather, it questions the universal validity of such an assumption by searching the history of European politics and by paying specific attention to the struggles of democratization accomplished outside Western Europe. The authors apply a comparative approach to analyzing debates in the primary sources in a number of countries and languages and situate the results into a broader European context. Focusing on European democratization from different historical and analytical perspectives, they discuss the politics, concepts and histories involved in democratization as a complex of changes that has altered the conditions of political action and debate in the continent for the past two centuries.




A Companion to Renaissance Poetry


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The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres—epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. • Covers a wide selection of authors and texts • Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe • Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period.