Robert Lanier Reid

Renaissance psychologies (eBook, ePUB)

Spenser and Shakespeare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more. Renaissance psychologies examines the distinct and polarised emphasis of these two towering intellects and writers of the early modern period. It demonstrates how pervasive was the influence of Spenser on Shakespeare, as in the "playful metamorphosis of Gloriana into Titania" in A Midsummer Night's Dream and its return from Spenser's moralizing allegory to the Ovidian spirit of Shakespeare's comedy. It will appeal to students and lecturers in Spenser studies, Renaissance poetry and the wider fields of British literature, social and cultural history, ethics and theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526109200
• Artikelnr.: 60362660

Autorenporträt

Robert Lanier Reid is H. C. Stuart Professor Emeritus of English at Emory and Henry College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Anatomy of human nature 1. The charismatic queen and
the centrality of self-love 2. Depicting passion 3. Depicting intellect
('Experience, though noon auctoritee') 4. Depicting soul and spirit:
Spenser and Shakespeare Part II: Holistic design 5. Hierarchic architecture
in The Faerie Queene 6. Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing
the unconscious in chiastic symmetry 7. End-songs: final vistas of Spenser
and Shakespeare Epilogue Index