Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

by Katherine C. Little

Book Overview

Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as Katherine C. Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Medieval Poetry, the pastoral mode is in fact indebted to medieval representations of rural labor.

Little offers a new literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268033870
• ISBN13: 9780268033873
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"