The pain of Reformation : Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /

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This study argues that the most illuminating meditation on vulnerability, masculinity, and ethics in the wake of the Reformation came from Spenser, a poet often associated with the brutalities of English rule in Ireland. The underside, or shadow, of violence in both the fantasies and the realities o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campana, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene.
Spenser, Edmund > 1552-1599 > The faerie queene
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Masculinity in literature.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Reformation > England.
English literature > History and criticism.
Masculinity.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Sens et sensations dans la littérature.
Morale dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Masculinité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
English literature
Ethics in literature
Masculinity
Masculinity in literature
Reformation
Senses and sensation in literature
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Gefühl > Motiv
Verwundbarkeit > Motiv
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Legend of Holiness. Reading Bleeding Trees: The Poetics of Other People's Pain
  • Spenser's Dark Materials: Representation in the Shadow of Christ
  • Part II. The Legend of Temperance. On Not Defending Poetry: Spenser, Suffering, and the Energy of Affect
  • Boy Toys and Liquid Joys: Pleasure and Power in the Bower of Bliss
  • Part III. The Legend of Chastity. Vulnerable Subjects: Amoret's Agony, Britomart's Battle for Chastity
  • Damaged Gods: Adonis and the Pain of Allegory
  • Conclusion.

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