Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities : Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare /

In a major contribution to the burgeoning area of study that crosses between early modern texts and premodern cultures, Danila Sokolov argues for the necessity of reading the work of English Petrarchan writers in light of earlier medieval forms of poetic subjectivity. By doing just that, this book d...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sokolov, D. A. (Danila Alekseevich) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374.
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374 > Influence.
Subjectivity in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Renaissance.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
English literature > Early modern.
Renaissance > Grande-Bretagne.
Subjectivite dans la litterature.
Moi (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Renaissance > Great Britain.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Vernacular memories of English Petrarchism
  • The measure of meed: symbolic economies in Langland, Wyatt, and Spenser
  • Chaucerian melancholy in Renaissance England: Surrey's songes and sonnets and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
  • Sovereign love, medieval and early modern: the arts of marriage in the Casket sonnets and the Kingis quair
  • Petrarchan afterlives of erotic legality: love and law in Lydgate, Daniel, and Drayton
  • Medieval pathologies of affect: reading Hoccleve and Henryson in Shakespeare's sonnets
  • Conclusion: The "English straine" of Renaissance petrarchism: poetry, genealogy, hermeneutics.

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