02328nam 22004453a 450 991091728120332120250203232217.097815017534971501753495(CKB)36719608300041(ScCtBLL)53e95ff9-18ab-4478-8ecc-affa8c5a6823(EXLCZ)993671960830004120250203i20212021 uu engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIrregular Unions : Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature /Katharine Cleland[s.l.] :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource9781501753473 1501753479 9781501753480 1501753487 Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways.Biography & AutobiographybisacshLiterary Criticism / ShakespearebisacshReligion / HistorybisacshBiographies.lcgftBiography & AutobiographyLiterary Criticism / ShakespeareReligion / HistoryCleland Katharine1203263ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910917281203321Irregular Unions2777465UNINA