European Literary Careers. The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Introduction 'Jog on, jog on': European Career Paths (Patrick Cheney) -- Greek Lives and Roman Careers in the Classical Vita Tradition (Joseph Farrell) -- From Cursus to Ductus: Figures of Writing in Western Late Antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede) (Mark Vessey) -- Medieval Literary Careers: The Theban Track (Robert R. Edwards) -- Authority and Influence - Vocation and Anxiety: The Sense of a Literary Career in the Sentimental Novel and Celestina (James F. Burke) -- Versions of a Career: Petrarch and His Renaissance Commentators (William J. Kennedy) -- Judging a Literary Career: The Case of Antonio de Guevara (1480?-1545) (Kathleen Bollard de Broce) -- Arms versus Letters: The Poetics of War and the Career of the Poet in Early Modern Spain (Anne J. Cruz) -- Divine Poetry as a Career Move: The Complexities and Consolations of Following David (Anne Lake Prescott) -- 'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's Februarie Eclogue (Patrick Cheney) -- Cervantes and the Virgilian Wheel: The Portrayal of a Literary Career (Frederick A. de Armas) -- Epic Violence: Captives, Moriscos, and Empire in Cervantes (Alvaro Molina) -- Renaissance Englishwomen and the Literary Career (Susanne Woods and Margaret P. Hannay, with Elaine Beilin and Anne Shaver). ISBN 9780802047793