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Poetry and paternity in Renaissance England : Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson /
Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity was by no means as secure as is often assumed: when poets invoke the idea of paternity in love poetry and other forms, they are therefore invo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity was by no means as secure as is often assumed: when poets invoke the idea of paternity in love poetry and other forms, they are therefore invoking all the anxieties that a culture with contradictory notions of sexuality imposed. This study takes these anxieties seriously, arguing that writers such as Sidney and Spenser deployed images of childbirth to harmonize public and private spheres, to develop a full sense of selfhood in their verse, and even to come to new accommodations between the sexes. Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson, in turn, saw the appeal of the older poets' aims, but resisted their more radical implications. The result is a fiercely personal yet publicly-committed poetry that wouldn't be seen again until the time of the Romantics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511789458 0511789459 9780521191104 0521191106 9780511761089 0511761082 1107204062 9781107204065 0511848544 9780511848544 1282723545 9781282723542 9786612723544 6612723548 0511786859 9780511786853 0511785712 9780511785719 0511787995 9780511787997 9781107411371 1107411378 |