J. Davis 
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature [PDF ebook] 

Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern ‘literary system’ dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney’s Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.

Table of Content

The Literary System and its Symptoms Feigning History in the 1590 Arcadia The Performance of Astrophel and Stella in the 1591 Quartos The One and the Many: The Sidney Name in Print, 1590-1593 Mary Sidney Herbert and the (Re)Invention of Arcadia 1598 Folio and the Apology for Poetry

About the author

JOEL B. DAVIS
Associate Professor of English at Stetson University, USA.