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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154610803321

Autore

Vaught Jennifer C.

Titolo

Masculinity and emotion in early modern English literature / / Jennifer C. Vaught

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91939-3

1-138-25766-4

1-315-24955-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and Gender in the early Modern World

Disciplina

820.9353

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Emotions in literature

Men in literature

Men - Psychology - History - 16th century

Men - Psychology - History - 17th century

Masculinity - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The intertextual poetics of scholarly men : affect in arboreal works by Spenser and Jonson -- pt. 2. Emotional kings and their stoical usurpers in Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II -- pt. 3. Chivalric knights, courtiers, and shepherds prone to tears in pastoral romances by Sidney and Spenser -- pt. 4. Demonstrative family men : masculinity and sentiment in works by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Cary, Donne, Walton, and Garrick.

Sommario/riassunto

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.