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Together with Shakespeare and Spenser, Philip Sidney is one of the giants of English Renaissance writing. He is also, in many respects, a striking embodiment of Renaissance culture, uniting in his person impeccable courtliness, chivalry, and learnedness with the talents of a brilliant poet. In this seminar, we shall sample Sidney’s theoretical writing, his prose fiction, as well as his poetry, glancing at the politics and origins of courtliness and various other parts of Renaissance learning and self-fashioning. The aim is to study in some detail Sidney’s Defence of Poetry, his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, and his sequence of love sonnets Astrophil and Stella. Recommended edition: Katherine Duncan-Jones' edition of Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 11985 (it’s still available, please buy and read!).
Please note: The first seminar meeting is on Wednesday, 24.10.18. |
