LEADER 04110nam 2200577 450 001 9910466447303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-268-10169-8 010 $a0-268-10168-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001123739 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4731619 035 $a(OCoLC)979560027 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56886 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4731619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11366805 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001123739 100 $a20170407h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aVolition's face $epersonificatioon and the will in the renaissance literature /$fAndrew Escobedo 210 1$aNotre Dame, Indiana :$cUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (340 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aReFormations : Medieval and Early Modern Series 311 $a0-268-10166-3 311 $a0-268-10167-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPersonification, energy, and allegory -- The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we -- Conscience in the Tudor interludes -- Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism? 330 $a"Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo argues that premodern writers, including Spenser, Marlowe, and Milton, understood personification as a literary expression of will, an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action. As the will emerged as an isolatable faculty in the Christian Middle Ages, it was seen not only as the instrument of human agency but also as perversely independent of other human capacities, for example, intellect and moral character. Renaissance accounts of the will conceived of volition both as the means to self-creation and the faculty by which we lose control of ourselves. After offering a brief history of the will that isolates the distinctive features of the faculty in medieval and Renaissance thought, Escobedo makes his case through an examination of several personified figures in Renaissance literature: Conscience in the Tudor interludes, Despair in Doctor Faustus and book I of The Faerie Queen, Love in books III and IV of The Faerie Queen, and Sin in Paradise Lost. These examples demonstrate that literary personification did not amount to a dim reflection of "realistic" fictional character, but rather that it provided a literary means to explore the numerous conundrums posed by the premodern notion of the human will. This book will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students interested in Medieval studies and Renaissance literature. "This exhilarating and brilliant book will be a most welcome and timely addition to the ReFormations series, to which it will add distinction. It is also a book that can be relished sentence by sentence, as Escobedo is a writer of intellectual verve and boldness, making hard-won claims look obvious once made." --Sarah Beckwith, Duke University"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aReformations. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPersonification in literature 606 $aWill in literature 606 $aRenaissance$zEngland 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPersonification in literature. 615 0$aWill in literature. 615 0$aRenaissance 676 $a820.9003 700 $aEscobedo$b Andrew$f1967-$0883956 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466447303321 996 $aVolition's face$91974118 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03238nam 2200397 n 450 001 996391264203316 005 20200824121850.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000104989 035 $a(EEBO)2240900787 035 $a(UnM)99853367e 035 $a(UnM)99853367 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000104989 100 $a19920615d1625 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 04$aThe historie of the Church. The second part. Containing a discouerie of the noueltie of popish religion. Wherein not onely the inuenters, maintainers, and gainsayers thereof, together with the grosse abuses, absurdities, and inconueniences which are to be found therein, are expressed: but also all doubts are cleared, popish obiections answered, Scriptures and fathers, by them falsly peruerted and vilely abused, rightly interpreted: the truth confirmed, their falshood detected, by the Scriptures, ancient fathers, generall councels, and diuerse of the papists themselues. Profitable to confirme the strong, to strengthen the weake, to bring backe those that are fallen, and to furnish knowledge vnto such as are ignorant. A worke worthie to be read, and easie to be vnderstood by all. Digested into 34. treatises. By the famous and worthie preacher of Gods word, M. 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