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UNINA9910461654103321 |
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Autore |
Kuzner James |
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Titolo |
Open subjects : English Renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability / / James Kuzner [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011 |
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0-7486-5158-6 |
1-283-22185-3 |
9786613221858 |
0-7486-4710-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh critical studies in renaissance culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Republicanism in literature |
Renaissance - England |
Politics and literature - England - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: vulnerable crests of Renaissance selves -- Legacies of republicanism, histories of the self -- 'Without respect of utility': precarious life and the politics of Edmund Spenser's Legend of Friendship -- Unbuilding the city: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the forms of openness -- 'That Transubstantiall solacisme': Andrew Marvell, linguistic vulnerability and the space of the subject -- Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason and the republicanism of Paradise Lost -- Epilogue: the futures of open subjects. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser Shakespeare Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically. |
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