Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
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Telling learning -- Experience: Lyly's Euphues -- Maxim: the old Arcadia -- Example: the 1590 Faerie queene -- Method: the new Arcadia -- Punishment: the 1596 Faerie queene -- Coda: the sense of a lesson.
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We take it for granted today that the study of poetry belongs in school?but in sixteenth-century England, making Ovid or Virgil into pillars of the curriculum was a revolution. Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance explores how poets reacted to the new authority of humanist pedagogy, and how they transformed a genre to express their most radical doubts. Jeff Dolven investigates what it meant for a book to teach as he traces the rivalry between poet and schoolmaster in the works of John Lyly, Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton. Drawing deeply on the era?s pedagogical literatu.
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Title
Scenes of instruction in Renaissance romance.
International Standard Book Number
0226155366
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Lyly, John,1554?-1606., Euphues.
Sidney, Philip,1554-1586., Arcadia.
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599., Faerie queene.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Arcadia (Sidney, Philip)
Euphues (Lyly, John)
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Education in literature.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.