The History of John Winchcomb, Usually Called Jack of Newbury

The History of John Winchcomb, Usually Called Jack of Newbury
Author: Thomas Deloney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382327570

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Rhetoric of Concealment

The Rhetoric of Concealment
Author: Rosemary Kegl
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801430169

Demonstrating how struggles over gender and class were mediated through formal properties of writing, The Rhetoric of Concealment offers a new framework for the discussion of court literature and middle-class literature in the English Renaissance. Rosemary Kegl offers powerful readings of works by Puttenham, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Deloney and considers an array of other texts including journals, gynecological and obstetrical writings, misogynist tracts, defenses of women, prescriptive literature on companionate marriage, royal proclamations, legal records, and town charters.

The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Paul Mantoux
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2005-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415378390

This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers preparatory changes, inventions and factories, and immediate consequences.

The Medieval Clothier

The Medieval Clothier
Author: John S. Lee
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2018
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1783273178

A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Author: Paul Salzman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1998
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780192839015

This anthology contains five of the most important short works of Elizabethan prose fiction: George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J., John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Robert Greene's Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury. Paul Salzman has modernized the texts for easier comprehension.

Fashioning Authority

Fashioning Authority
Author: Constance Caroline Relihan
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780873384957

Various factors in late 16th-century England contributed to an environment more hospitable to prose fiction than had existed previously-among them, changes in educational opportunities, socioeconomic structures, literacy rates, and access to European literature. Such cultural alterations inevitably produced changes in modes of literary production. Furthermore, access to the bookstall to a new class of readers altered the structures and subjects writers employed. Within this tumultuous context, the writers of fictional prose narrative negotiated-for themselves and their audience a precarious definition of their identity within the Elizabethan literary world. In Fashioning Authority Constance C. Relihan examines the influence of Elizabethan prose fiction on early modern literary culture, emphasizing the role of the nonaristocratic reader in the reception of literature, the importance of the marketplace in the production and reception of prose texts, and the growth of prose as the dominant mode of narrative presentation. Combining cultural analysis with a concern for narrative structure, Relihan explores six strategies by which the writers and readers of Elizabethan fiction struggled to achieve artistic authority: incorporating poetry into prose texts; using translated material; separating authorial from narrative voice; introducing a sense of place; depicting females; and representing non-European cultures. Relihan argues that Elizabethan fiction's unique position on the borders of literate and literary English culture, that is, its position as what M. M. Bakhtin calls "novelistic discourse," allows it to constitute a rich field for examining the ideological rifts of the period. Taking her primary examples from Barnabe Riche's Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581), but also considering texts by a variety of authors (such as Sidney, Deloney, Lyly, Gascoigne, Lodge, Breton, Greene, Harmon, Nashe, and Painter), Relihan demonstrates that regardless of their specific structural and thematic differences, the various modes of Elizabethan fiction all share a common origin in the upheavals of English culture during the later half of the 16th century. By examining novelistic discourse as a category, Fashioning Authority strengthens our understanding of the nature and history of English fiction even as it broadens our sense of Elizabethan culture. The result is an exploration of how Elizabethan novelistic discourse established the cultural place of its newly literate readers and its generically marginal authors, creating literary comfort in narrative prose for those who failed to find it in verse.