Open subjects : English Renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability /

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Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues, protections, and entitlements which foster the self's ability to simulate an invulnerable existence. James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuzner, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Republicanism in literature.
Renaissance > England.
Politics and literature > England > History.
Républicanisme dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Politique et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature > Early modern.
Politics and literature.
Renaissance.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: vulnerable crests of Renaissance selves
  • Legacies of republicanism, histories of the shelf
  • 'Without respect of utility': precarious life and the politics of Edmund Spenser's Legend of Friendship
  • Unbuilding the city: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the form of openness
  • 'That Transubstantiall solacisme': Andrew Marvell, linguistic vulnerability and the space of the subject
  • Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason and the republicanism of Paradise Lost.

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