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Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Men Who Weep and Wail: Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature -- Part One: The Intertextual Poetics of Scholarly Men: Affect in Arboreal Works by Spenser and Jonson -- 1. Passionate Protestantism: Spenser's Dialogic, Feminine Voice in Book I of The Faerie Queene -- 2. A Pen as Mighty as the Sword: Stoical Anger in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries upon Men and Matter
eBook, English, 2008
Taylor and Francis, Florence, 2008
1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten)
9781351919401, 9780754662945, 1351919407, 0754662942
1020855398
Contents: Introduction: men who weep and wail: masculinity and emotion in early modern English literature. Part 1 The Intertextual Poetics of Scholarly Men: Affect in Arboreal Works by Spenser and Jonson: Passionate Protestantism: Spenser's dialogic, feminine voice in Book I of The Faerie Queen; A pen as mighty as the sword: stoical anger in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries upon Men and Matter. Part 2 Emotional Kings and their Stoical Usurpers in History Plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare: 'Monster of men!': androgyny, affect, and politically savvy action in Marlowe's Edward II; 'Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes': woeful rhetoric and crocodile tears in Shakespeare's Richard II. Part 3 Chivalric Knights, Courtiers, and Shepherds Prone to Tears in Pastoral Romances by Sidney and Spenser: Crossdressers in love: men of feeling and narrative urgency in Sidney's New Arcadia; 'To sing like birds i' th' cage': lyrical, private expressions of emotion in Book VI of Spenser's Faerie Queen. Part 4 Demonstrative Family Men: Masculinity and Sentiment in Works by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Cary, Donne, Walton and Garrick: 'Affection! thy intention stabs the center': male irrationality vs. female composure in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale; Nightmarish visions of grief: lamentable men in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and Walton's Life of Dr John Donne; Fathers and rogues: peddling middle-class values by shedding tears on stage in David Garrick's Florizel and Perdita; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
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