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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461654103321

Autore

Kuzner James

Titolo

Open subjects : English Renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability / / James Kuzner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5158-6

1-283-22185-3

9786613221858

0-7486-4710-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in renaissance culture

Disciplina

820.9003

Soggetti

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

Republicanism in literature

Renaissance - England

Politics and literature - England - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.