Sidney's Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue Wood Richard James
Sidney's Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue Wood Richard James Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the…
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Sidney's Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue Wood Richard James
Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the Protestant theologian. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of literary and religious studies. He employs a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap that critics have found between Sidney's theory and literary practice.
Employing the same philosophy, Sidney, in his letter to Queen Elizabeth and in his fiction, arrogates to himself the role of court counsellor. Various strands of philosophical, political and theological thought are accommodated within the New Arcadia, which conforms to the kind of literature praised by Melanchthon for its examples of virtue. Robert Devereux also draws, Wood argues, on the optimistic and conciliatory
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