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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, ...

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Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance 2007, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226155364

Hardcover