Jennifer C. Vaught

Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught bases her analysis on the epic, lyric, and romance as well as on drama, pastoral writings and biography, by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson and Garrick among other writers. Offering new readings of these works, she traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780754662945
• ISBN-10: 0754662942
• Artikelnr.: 40283566

Autorenporträt

Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean-Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: men who weep and wail: masculinity and emotion in
early modern English literature. Part 1 The Intertextual Poetics of
Scholarly Men: Affect in Arboreal Works by Spenser and Jonson: Passionate
Protestantism: Spenser's dialogic, feminine voice in Book I of The Faerie
Queen; A pen as mighty as the sword: stoical anger in Jonson's Timber, or
Discoveries upon Men and Matter. Part 2 Emotional Kings and their Stoical
Usurpers in History Plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare: 'Monster of men!':
androgyny, affect, and politically savvy action in Marlowe's Edward II;
'Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes': woeful rhetoric and crocodile
tears in Shakespeare's Richard II. Part 3 Chivalric Knights, Courtiers, and
Shepherds Prone to Tears in Pastoral Romances by Sidney and Spenser:
Crossdressers in love: men of feeling and narrative urgency in Sidney's New
Arcadia; 'To sing like birds i' th' cage': lyrical, private expressions of
emotion in Book VI of Spenser's Faerie Queen. Part 4 Demonstrative Family
Men: Masculinity and Sentiment in Works by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Cary,
Donne, Walton and Garrick: 'Affection! thy intention stabs the center':
male irrationality vs. female composure in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale;
Nightmarish visions of grief: lamentable men in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale
and Walton's Life of Dr John Donne; Fathers and rogues: peddling
middle-class values by shedding tears on stage in David Garrick's Florizel
and Perdita; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.