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The early modern English sonnet

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Edited by Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin and Enrica Zanin

The early modern English sonnet
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    This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions.

    Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.

    Reviews

    'This remarkable volume is a fine addition to the current body of scholarship on the sonnet form. Scholars of English lyric would benefit from a look at this volume, as would those who have especial interest in the structure and material production of early modern verse miscellanies.'
    The Spenser Review

    Contents

    Introduction
    Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin

    Shaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England

    1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentary
    William J. Kennedy

    2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth century
    Carlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi Vuillemin

    Performing the English sonnet

    3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stage
    Guillaume Coatalen

    4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate Pilgrim
    Sophie Chiari

    Placing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced

    5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth century
    Chris Stamatakis

    6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapy
    Elisabeth Chaghafi

    7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorship
    Rémi Vuillemin

    Editing the sonnet

    8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellany
    Hugh Gazzard

    9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares Sonnets
    Andrew Eastman

    Editors

    Rémi Vuillemin is Senior Lecturer in English language and literature at Université de Strasbourg, France

    Laetitia Sansonetti is Senior Lecturer in English literature and translation studies at Université Paris Nanterre, France

    Enrica Zanin is Senior Lecturer in comparative early modern literature at Université de Strasbourg, France

    The early modern English sonnet

    Edited by Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin

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