Richard Barnfield's Poetics Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare
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Camilla Caporicci is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Perugia, Italy.
Fabio Ciambella is a Researcher of English at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Cristiano Ragni is a Researcher in English Literature at the University of Verona, Italy.
Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry.
This edited collection situates Barnfield’s position in early modern literature beyond his best known work, The Affectionate Shepherd, exploring his classical education, wider homoerotic verse and distinctive aesthetic literary style.
Making use of different approaches, the essays in this volume tackle issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity through the poet’s use of classical sources and poetic genres such as the sonnet and epyllia. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between Barnfield’s work and that of his contemporaries. Traditionally limited to a comparison with Shakespeare’s output, this volume places Barnfield in the literary panorama of his time, giving specific attention to those features which make his work stand out. Using corpus linguistics tools, the poet’s entire body of work is further elucidated through the structure and meter of his sonnets as well as formal and functional aspects of his use of irony. Written by an international group of scholars, this collection celebrates the 450th anniversary of Barnfield’s birth and makes his poetry essential to the study of early modern literature.
Introduction: Camilla Caporicci (University of Perugia, Italy), Fabio Ciambella (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona, Italy)
Prelude: Robert Stagg (Texas A&M University, USA)
Section 1: Barnfield’s (Re)sources
1. Barnfield at Grammar School: Orpheus’ ‘sad teares’ and the Rhetoric of Pathos, Massimiliano Riviera (University College London, UK)
2. Refashioning Antiquity: Richard Barnfield’s Cassandra, Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona, UK)
3. Richard Barnfield’s Petrarchism, Shawn Smith (Longwood University, USA)
Section 2: Barnfield and His Contemporaries
4. Richard Barnfield: Patronage, Intimacy, and Money, Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex, UK)
5. The Female Gaze? Seeing, Seeming, and Being Seen in Barnfield, Powell and Shakespeare, Evgeniia Ganberg (University of Cambridge, UK)
6. The Poetics of Unpersuasion: Barnfield, Virgil, Shakespeare, Tania Demetriou (University of Cambridge, UK)
Section 3: In and Out Conventions in Barnfield’s Love Poetry
7. Beauty on Trial: Aesthetics and Law in Richard Barnfield’s Cynthia, Danila Sokolov (University of Iceland, Iceland)
8. Escaping Conventionality: The ‘Barnfieldian’ Revolution, Mattia Italiano (University of Perugia, Italy)
9.‘Otherwise than (in truth) I meant’: Homoeroticism in Richard Barnfield’s Poetry, Harry Matthews (University of Reading, UK)
Section 4: Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches to Barnfield’s Poems
10. A Stylistic Approach to Irony in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, Aoife Beville (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy)
11. A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Barnfield’s Complete Works, Fabio Ciambella (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Afterword: Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe, London)
Index
Product details
Biographical note
Camilla Caporicci is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Perugia, Italy.
Fabio Ciambella is a Researcher of English at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Cristiano Ragni is a Researcher in English Literature at the University of Verona, Italy.