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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacFaul, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Presumptive fathers; Chapter 2 Uncertain paternity: the indifferent ideology of patriarchy; Chapter 3 The childish love of Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville; Chapter 4 Spenser's timely fruit: generation in The Faerie Queene; Chapter 5 'We desire increase': Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry; Chapter 6 John Donne's rhetorical contraception; Chapter 7 'To propagate their names': Ben Jonson as poetic godfather; Coda: Sons; Notes; Bibliography; Index