Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion

by William P. Weaver

A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748644652
• ISBN13: 9780748644650
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher