Andrew Mattison

Solitude and Speechlessness

Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation

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Produktbeschreibung

Solitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504045
• ISBN-10: 1487504047
• Artikelnr.: 55899197

Autorenporträt

Andrew Mattison teaches in the English Department at the University of Toledo.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing in Solitude
1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle
2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty
3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity
4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions
5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne
6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical
Memory
Conclusion: Reading in Solitude
Bibliography