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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature
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Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methodsentailed in theidea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events.Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface: A Book about Books
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literary System and its Symptoms: A Disciplinary Glance at the Invention of English Literature
- 1 Feigning History in the 1590 Arcadia
- 2 The Performance of Astrophel and Stella in the 1591 Quartos
- 3 The One and the Many: The Sidney Name in Print, 1590-93
- 4 Mary Sidney Herbert and the Reinvention of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
- 5 Organic and Artificial Wholes in the Invention of English Literature: Or, the Ontological Status ofthe 1598 folio of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index