Little, Katherine C., 1969-

Transforming work early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry / [electronic resource] : Katherine C. Little. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. - ix, 256 p. : ill. - ReFormations : medieval and early modern . - Reformations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medieval traditions of writing rural labor -- The invention of the English eclogue -- The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism -- Transforming work: the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition -- Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor -- Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Afterword: The secret history of pastoral.


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9780268033873 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268033870 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780268085704 (e-book)




Pastoral poetry, English--History and criticism.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Literature, Medieval--Influence.


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