LEADER 04175nam 2200697 450 001 9910466868003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9481-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812294811 035 $a(CKB)4100000004818291 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5380466 035 $a(DE-B1597)494844 035 $a(OCoLC)1027218487 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812294811 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5380466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11555333 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004818291 100 $a20180522d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAddiction and devotion in early modern England /$fRebecca Lemon 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation series 311 0 $a0-8122-4996-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aScholarly 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. 330 $aRebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions. Specifically, early modern medical tracts, legal rulings, and religious polemic stressed the dangers of addiction to alcohol in terms of disease, compulsion, and enslavement. Yet the relationship between these two understandings of addiction was not simply oppositional, for what unites these discourses is a shared emphasis on addiction as the overthrow of the will. Etymologically, "addiction" is a verbal contract or a pledge, and even as sixteenth-century audiences actively embraced addiction to God and love, writers warned against commitment to improper forms of addiction, and the term became increasingly associated with disease and tyranny. Examining canonical texts including Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Othello alongside theological, medical, imaginative, and legal writings, Lemon traces the variety of early modern addictive attachments. Although contemporary notions of addiction seem to bear little resemblance to its initial meanings, Lemon argues that the early modern period's understanding of addiction is relevant to our modern conceptions of, and debates about, the phenomenon. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aCompulsive behavior in literature 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDevotion in literature 606 $aAlcoholism in literature 606 $aCompulsive behavior$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aCompulsive behavior$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAlcoholism$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aAlcoholism$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCompulsive behavior in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDevotion in literature. 615 0$aAlcoholism in literature. 615 0$aCompulsive behavior$xHistory 615 0$aCompulsive behavior$xHistory 615 0$aAlcoholism$xHistory 615 0$aAlcoholism$xHistory 676 $a822.309353 700 $aLemon$b Rebecca$f1968-$01038753 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466868003321 996 $aAddiction and devotion in early modern England$92468514 997 $aUNINA