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Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
Anne James
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Hardback. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; HBLH; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442649378
SKU
V9781442649378
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Ref
99-1
About Anne James
Anne James is an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Regina.
Reviews for Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
[This book] is a fine example of the iterative relationship between literary and historical inquiry, as well as a complex account of how the memory of a single (and ultimately failed) historical event can come to serve widely divergent ends.
Todd Butler
Seventeenth Century News
Poets, Players and Preachers is an ambitious book, as rewarding as it is challenging, covering a wide range of genres stretching across a hundred years of history and drawing on a wide range of scholarship and theory.
Brent Nelson
Seventeenth Century News
Poets, Players and Preachers offers a captivating study of the literary repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot. James makes it clear that this is very much a historicist approach to literary studies and demonstrates the importance and advantages that a greater interdisciplinary relationship between literary and historical studies can bring to enrich our understanding of intention, transmission, and reception of early modern literature.
Tatyana Zhukova, University of Nottingham
The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018
`Masterful, nuanced, and at times almost overwhelming treatment of Gunpowder Plot.'
Leah Knight
Renaissance and Reformation vol 40:04:2017
Todd Butler
Seventeenth Century News
Poets, Players and Preachers is an ambitious book, as rewarding as it is challenging, covering a wide range of genres stretching across a hundred years of history and drawing on a wide range of scholarship and theory.
Brent Nelson
Seventeenth Century News
Poets, Players and Preachers offers a captivating study of the literary repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot. James makes it clear that this is very much a historicist approach to literary studies and demonstrates the importance and advantages that a greater interdisciplinary relationship between literary and historical studies can bring to enrich our understanding of intention, transmission, and reception of early modern literature.
Tatyana Zhukova, University of Nottingham
The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018
`Masterful, nuanced, and at times almost overwhelming treatment of Gunpowder Plot.'
Leah Knight
Renaissance and Reformation vol 40:04:2017