The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield.

Barnfield, Richard, George Klawitter and Kenneth Borris (eds.):

ISBN 10: 1575910497 / ISBN 13: 9781575910499

Published by Susquehanna University Press, 2001

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388 p. ISBN: 9781575910499 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield.
• Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575910497
• ISBN 13: 9781575910499
• Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 720 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry. This new collection of essays seeks to provide a forum for his evaluation and reinterpretation in accord with his topicality for literary studies today.

About the Author

Klawitter, professor of English, teaches at St. Edward's University where he chairs the Department of English Literature. Previously he taught at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana, and Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, a master's degree in English language and literature from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in Renaissance literature from the University of Chicago.