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UNINA9910466868003321 |
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Lemon Rebecca <1968-> |
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Addiction and devotion in early modern England / / Rebecca Lemon |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] |
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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Compulsive behavior in literature |
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism |
Devotion in literature |
Alcoholism in literature |
Compulsive behavior - England - History - 16th century |
Compulsive behavior - England - History - 17th century |
Alcoholism - England - History - 16th century |
Alcoholism - England - History - 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Scholarly addiction in Doctor Faustus -- Addicted love in Twelfth Night -- Addicted fellowship in Henry IV -- Addiction and possession in Othello -- Addictive pledging from Shakespeare and Jonson to cavalier verse. |
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Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions. Specifically, early modern medical tracts, |
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legal rulings, and religious polemic stressed the dangers of addiction to alcohol in terms of disease, compulsion, and enslavement. Yet the relationship between these two understandings of addiction was not simply oppositional, for what unites these discourses is a shared emphasis on addiction as the overthrow of the will. Etymologically, "addiction" is a verbal contract or a pledge, and even as sixteenth-century audiences actively embraced addiction to God and love, writers warned against commitment to improper forms of addiction, and the term became increasingly associated with disease and tyranny. Examining canonical texts including Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Othello alongside theological, medical, imaginative, and legal writings, Lemon traces the variety of early modern addictive attachments. Although contemporary notions of addiction seem to bear little resemblance to its initial meanings, Lemon argues that the early modern period's understanding of addiction is relevant to our modern conceptions of, and debates about, the phenomenon. |
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UNINA9910453221003321 |
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Grass Sean <1971-, > |
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The self in the cell : narrating the Victorian prisoner / / Sean Grass |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-138-98162-1 |
1-135-38484-3 |
0-203-95444-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Prisoners in literature |
Prisons - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century |
Self in literature |
Prisons in literature |
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First published in 2003 by Routledge. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION Solitude, Surveillance, and the Art of the Novel; CHAPTER 1 Narrating the Victorian Prisoner; CHAPTER 2 Prisoners by Boz: Pickwick Papers and American Notes; CHAPTER 3 Charles Reade, the Facts, and Deliberate Fictions; CHAPTER 4 ""How Not to Do It"": Dickens, the Prison, and the Failure of Omniscience; CHAPTER 5 The ""Marks System"": Australia and Narrative Wounding; CHAPTER 6 The Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration |
CONCLUSION Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin DroodNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
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Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confine |
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