Archaic Style in English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Munro, Lucy.
Archaic Style in English Literature.
- Published
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- xii, 308 pp.; 4 b&w illus.
- Description
- Explores the use of "archaic linguistic and poetic style" in poetry and drama, 1590–1674, analyzing how combinations of anachronism and nostalgia help to influence the idea of English "nationhood." Includes recurrent comments on lexical "Chaucerisms" and "Chaucer's authority," and Chapter 4, "Chaucer, Gower, and the Anxiety of "Obsolescence" (pp. 69–104), explores how four early modern works express or resist concern about obsolescence through use of Chaucer and Gower, considering Book IV of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," the anonymous play "The Return from Parnassus," Shakespeare and Wilkins's "Pericles," and William Cartwright's "The Ordinary."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies