Jr Garrett A. Sullivan

Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment

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Produktbeschreibung

Sullivan explores the impact of Aristotelian and Cartesian conceptions of humanness on works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Sidney.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024410
• ISBN-10: 1107024412
• Artikelnr.: 35911284

Autorenporträt

Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage (1998) and Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (2005). He has also edited numerous works, among which are The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (with Emma Smith, 2010), Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England (with Mary Floyd-Wilson, 2007), Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion (with Patrick Cheney and Andrew Hadfield, 2007) and The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (co-general editor with Alan Stewart, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Aristotelian Vitality Ascendant: 1. 'Both plant and
beast together': temperance, vitality and the romance alternative in
Spenser's Bower of Bliss; 2. Sleeping minds: romance, affect and
environment in Sidney's The Old Arcadia; 3. Sleep, history and 'life
indeed' in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V; Part II.
Aristotelian Vitality Embattled: 4. 'From the root springs lighter the
green stalk': vegetality and humanness in Milton's Paradise Lost; Part III.
Aristotelian Vitality Undead: 5. 'Desperate sloth, miscalled philosophy':
Descartes and the post-Aristotelian romance episode in Dryden's All for
Love; Coda: beyond undeath.