Per Sivefors

Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590-1603

"A Kingdom for a Man"

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the representation of masculinity in late Elizabethan verse satire. Discussing satirists like Donne and Marston, it suggests that manhood as represented in their writing often existed in tension with patriarchal norms of self-control, violence and husbandry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9781032174501
• ISBN-10: 1032174501
• Artikelnr.: 62570736

Autorenporträt

Per Sivefors is Associate Professor of English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Satire and Masculinity 1. John Donne's Satires and the
Precariousness of Masculine Self-Control 2. Violence and the Male in John
Marston's Certaine Satyres and The Scourge of Villanie 3. The Failure of
Husbandry in Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum 4. Age and Manhood in Everard
Guilpin's Skialetheia. Coda: The Ban on Satire and the Representation of
Masculinity