a ISBN 978-01-9870281-8

a ISBN 0-19-870281-7

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PR543

b Item number .W67 2014

a Dewey Classification 821/.309

a Title The work of form :

b Remainder of title poetics and materaility in early modern culture /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Ben Burton and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann.

h Medium BOOK

a Extent xxvii, 227 pages ;

c Dimensions 23 cm

a General note Papers based on conference held at Wolfson College, Oxford University in July 2012.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Summary, etc This book explores the resurgent interest in literary form and aesthetics in early modern English studies. Essays by leading international scholars reflect on the legacy of historicist approaches and on calls for a renewal of formalist analysis as both a tool and as a defence of our object of study as literary critics. This collection addresses the possibilities as well as the challenges of combining these critical traditions; it tests and reflects on these through practice. It also establishes new lines of enquiry by expanding definitions of form to include the material as well as theoretical implications of the term and explores the early modern roots of these connections. The period's most famous poets such as Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Jonson appear alongside Anne Southwell, Thomas Campion, and many anonymous poets and songwriters. This book brings together contributors from literary history, historicism, manuscript study, prosodic theory, the history of music, history of the book, as well as print and manuscript culture. It represents avowedly political historical work, alongside aesthetic and theoretical frameworks, work bridging literature and music, and cognitive poetics. In bringing together these diverse commitments, it addresses urgent questions about how we can understand and analyse literary form in a historically-rooted way, and demands rigorous discussion about the status of formal and aesthetic considerations in editing, in literary criticism, and in teaching.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element English poetry

y Chronological subdivision Early modern, 1500-1700

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetics

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Formalism (Literary analysis)

a Personal name Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth,

d Dates associated with a name 1982-

a Personal name Burton, Ben,

d Dates associated with a name 1981-