Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century (Early Modern Literature in History)

by Anna Beer (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1997

  $171.87

  Sir Walter Ralegh created a powerful public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison. This new study not only offers a much-needed analysis of these neglected political writings, but also demonstrates the ways in which his readers modified Ralegh's public identity in a series of fascinating posthumous reinterpretations.