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Writing Under Tyranny Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)

Writing Under Tyranny By Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)

Writing Under Tyranny by Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)

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Writing Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature.

Writing Under Tyranny Summary

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production of late-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance.

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This is a truly important book, a major contribution to the study of the early Tudor regime, and a masterclass in how to read literature as historical evidence. * Peter Marshall, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. * Journal of British Studies *
A new book by Greg Walker... is a major event. * Reviews in History *
Walker's ability to invoke very specific points of reference in clarifying the contemporary significance of his texts is ... remarkable... This is an important book, which deserves to have a profound influence upon the ways in which we understand the literature of the Henrician period. * Roderick J. Lyall, Cahiers Elisabethains *
Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics... in a compelling work ... This is an actively engaging book, required reading for anyone interested in the relation between literature and politics, and a welcome addition to the ranks of intellectual history. * Alessandra Petrina, Renaissance Quarterly *
...an exceptionally good book..this study will surely remain an important work. * Lucy Wooding, English Historical Review *
Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. * Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books *
...a monumental achievement that furthers our understanding of an area that Walker has done much to illuminate over the years. The careful and scrupulous analysis of a whole range of texts that deserve to be better known, and more meticulously read, has resulted in a serious, scholarly and, in places, profound work, well written throughout. * Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement *
Walker's book is persuasively written... [and] will undoubtedly win many fans... * Review of English Studies *
Walker's argument about Henry VIII's slide into tyranny is potentially an interesting line of argument... * Sixteenth Century Journal *

About Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)

Greg Walker is Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester.

Table of Contents

1. The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry VIII's England ; POETRY AND THE CULTURE OF COUNSEL: THE 1532 WORKES OF GEFFRAY CHAUCER AND JOHN HEYWOOD'S PLAY OF THE WETHER ; 2. A Gift for Henry VIII ; 3. The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early 1530s ; 4. Reading Chaucer in 1532 ; 5. Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha ; 6. Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's Play of the Wether ; 'TO VIRTUE PERSUADED'?: THE PERSISTENT COUNSELS OF SIR THOMAS ELYOT ; 7. Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter ; 8. The Boke Named the Governor: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy ; 9. Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34 ; 10. From Supremacy to Tyranny ; 11. The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot ; THE DEATH OF COUNSEL: SIR THOMAS WYATT AND HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY ; 12. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics ; 13. Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires ; 14. Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence' ; 15. Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms ; 16. 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of Resistance ; 17. Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of English Poetry

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NPB9780199283330
9780199283330
0199283338
Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)
Greg Walker (Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture, University of Leicester)
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Oxford University Press
20051020
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