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- Title
Spenser's Shameful Shepheardes Calender.
- Authors
Miller, Andrew
- Abstract
This essay argues that the shame of stylistic primitivism is central to Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, which explores the tension between an affiliation with England's linguistic past as a means for shaming the present and as a shameful attachment to a superseded moment in style's evolutionary history. This double perspective on Spenser's conflicted archaism reveals the close bond between style and shame, the social life of style formation and reception, the affectively charged influence of humanism and its stylistic precepts on vernacular literature, and the continued relevance of anachronism as a concept for understanding Renaissance debates over stylistic historicism.
- Subjects
SHEPHEARDES Calender, The (Poem : Spenser); SPENSER, Edmund, ca. 1552-1599; ENGLISH poetry; HUMANISM in literature; ARCHAISMS (Linguistics); LITERARY errors &; blunders; LITERARY style; HISTORICISM in literature
- Publication
ELH, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2019.0001