Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent

Author : Marie H. Loughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000539707

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Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent by Marie H. Loughlin Pdf

Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other genealogical concepts to talk about authorship, family, selfhood, and memory. In turn, both Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth also shaped their works in relation to the ways in which writers within their familial communities and literary coteries constructed them as Sidneys, heirs, descendants, and future ancestors, in genres ranging from the patronage dedication and pastoral eclogue to mythographic genealogia and georgic poetry. In the intersection of ancestry, death, sexuality, and reproduction, the book contends that Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth develop their authorship within the simultaneous rigidity and flexibility of their world’s genealogical discourses.

Author : Jane Stevenson,Peter Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199242577

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Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700) by Jane Stevenson,Peter Davidson Pdf

This anthology represents a re-examination of its field, based on extensive archival research. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines biographic information with some guidance as to the context, intended audience and genre.

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521585090

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Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition by Hilda L. Smith Pdf

This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

Author : Erika D'Souza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000774283

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Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England by Erika D'Souza Pdf

Robert Sidney, the first Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), serves as an exemplar of an Elizabethan nobleman who had in his collection a body of work pertinent to the subject of masculine honour in the private realm. Understanding the nuances and evolution of the term private honour as it is represented in Sidney’s artefacts, as well as in the public discourse of the era, is the work and contribution of this book. The permeability between the private and public spheres led to an emergence of new forms of masculine representation. In a time when manhood was intertwined with militaristic qualities (such as courage, strength and fortitude), my investigation shows that in the domestic sphere, a gentler version of masculinity, encouraging humility, constancy and modesty, was fostered amongst the nobility. While worries of effeminacy certainly existed, there also was a strong discourse that encourage men to adopt so-called feminine virtues within the private sphere.

Author : Anthony Archdeacon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000531589

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From Narcissism to Nihilism by Anthony Archdeacon Pdf

This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship. In early modern literature, there were expressions of humanistic self-congratulation that sometimes verged on narcissism, and at the same time expressions of self-doubt and anxiety that verged on nihilism. The themes of self-love and self-negation had a long history in western thought, and this book shows how the medieval treatments of the themes developed into something distinctive in the sixteenth century. The two themes, either individually or combined, encompass such topics as poverty, unrequited love, transgressive sexuality, sexual violence, suicidality, self-worth, authorship, religious penitence, martyrdom, courtly ambition and tyranny. Archdeacon uses over 100 texts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to show how the early modern writer existed in a culture of contrary forces pulling towards either self-affirmation or self-erasure. Writers attempted to negotiate between the polarised extremes of self-love and self-negation, realising that they are fundamental to how we respond to each other, our selves and the world.

Author : Francesco Ciabattoni,Simone Marchesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000683530

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Dante Alive by Francesco Ciabattoni,Simone Marchesi Pdf

The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante’s imaginative universe enjoys a pervasive presence in popular culture. The multiformity of approaches represented in the collection matches the variety of the material that is analyzed. The volume documents Dante’s presence in genres as different as graphic novels and theater productions, children’s literature, advertisements and sci-fi narratives, rock and rap music, video- and boardgames, satirical vignettes and political speeches, school curricula and prison-teaching initiatives. Each chapter combines a focused attention to the specificity of the body of evidence it treats with best analytical practices. The volume invites collective reflection on the many different rules of engagement with Dante’s text.

Author : Jeffrey B. Griswold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000989977

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Human Insufficiency by Jeffrey B. Griswold Pdf

Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature—“poor” and “bare” in King Lear’s words—strategically portrayed English bodies as needing care from people who were imagined to be less fragile. Drawing on Aristotle’s depictions of the natural master and the natural slave in the Politics, English writers distinguished the fully human political subject from the sub-human Slave who would care for his feeble body. This justification of a nascent slaving economy reinvents the violence of enslaving Afro-diasporic peoples as a natural system of care. Human Insufficiency’s most important contribution to early modern critical race studies is expanding the scope of the human as a racialized category by demonstrating how depictions of Man as a vulnerable species were part of a discourse racializing slavery.

Author : Rosamund Paice
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000865776

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Milton's Loves by Rosamund Paice Pdf

This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical ideals, social conventions, and the rather messier ways in which love emerges in practice. Love, so central to Milton’s view of Edenic joy and obedience to God, unsettles earthly and heavenly communities and is the origin of Miltonic transgression. Milton’s Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including why Milton’s God is so difficult for readers to connect to, Satan’s apparent heroism, Milton’s radical theology, and the nature of Milton’s muse. It is a book that will appeal to students and scholars of Milton and early modern studies more broadly and is structured in a way that will aid easy reference.

Author : David A. Harper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003813033

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Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism by David A. Harper Pdf

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden, Addison, Dennis, Hume, and Bentley) confronted a poem and author at odds with prevailing culture and the revanchist conservatism of the restored monarchy. Grappling with the epic required navigating Milton’s reputation as a “fanatick” who had called in print for Charles I’s execution, inveighed openly against monarchy on the eve of Charles II’s return, and held heretical views on the trinity, baptism, and divorce. Harper argues that foundational figures in English literary criticism rose to this challenge by innovating new ways of reading: producing creative (and subversive) rewritings of Paradise Lost, articulating new theories of the sublime, explaining the poem in the first substantial body of annotations for an English vernacular text, and by pioneering early forms of textual criticism and editing.

Author : Stéphane Jettot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780192865960

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Selling Ancestry by Stéphane Jettot Pdf

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories help us reconsider how ancestry and genealogy became objects of widespread commercialization in the 18th century. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate society, they can be used by historians to explore attitudes towards social status and political events.

Author : Christopher Orchard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000895087

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Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain by Christopher Orchard Pdf

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of resistance to the republic and protectoral governments respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly, plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s Britain.

Author : Michael Slater
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013946

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Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution by Michael Slater Pdf

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the “scientific revolution” inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Literary tropes and forms underwent tremendous reassessment in the seventeenth century, and early modern science was shaped just as powerfully by contest over the place of literary figures, from personification and metaphor to anamorphosis and allegory. In their rejection of teleological explanations of natural motion, for instance, early modern philosophers often disputed the value of personification, a figural projection of interiority onto what was becoming increasingly a mechanical world. And allegory—a dominant mode of literature from the late Middle Ages until well into the Renaissance—became “the vice of those times,” as Thomas Rymer described it in 1674. This book shows that its acute devaluation was possible only in conjunction with a distinctively modern physics. Analyzing writings by Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, and more, it asserts that the scientific revolution was a literary phenomenon, just as the literary revolution was also a scientific one.

Author : Shannon Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812240863

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Engendering the Fall by Shannon Miller Pdf

Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.

Author : Patricia Berrahou Phillippy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316502058

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A History of Early Modern Women's Writing by Patricia Berrahou Phillippy Pdf

Author : Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135088040

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Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period by Margo Hendricks,Patricia Parker Pdf

Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of `race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.