LEADER 03627nam 22006615 450 001 9910824698403321 005 20230102051035.0 010 $a1-4875-1933-8 010 $a1-4875-1932-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487519322 035 $a(CKB)4100000008701471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5821054 035 $a(DE-B1597)535380 035 $a(OCoLC)1108619413 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487519322 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_108036 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008701471 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSolitude and Speechlessness $eRenaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation /$fAndrew Mattison 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) 311 $a1-4875-0404-7 327 $aLyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle -- Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty -- The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity -- The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions -- The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne -- Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory. 330 $a"Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them. These concerns are represented in their work through tropes, images, and characterizations of isolation. The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. As a response to this isolation of literary connection, Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference."--$cProvided by publisher 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 607 $aEngland$2gnd 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 610 $aAemilia Lanyer. 610 $aAndrew Marvell. 610 $aFrancis Bacon. 610 $aJohn Donne. 610 $aShakespeare. 610 $aSidney-Pembroke Circle. 610 $aThomas Traherne. 610 $aascetics. 610 $aauthorship. 610 $ahermits. 610 $aisolation. 610 $amelancholy. 610 $aobscurity. 610 $apoets. 610 $asolitude. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/003 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 700 $aMattison$b Andrew, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01702366 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824698403321 996 $aSolitude and Speechlessness$94086833 997 $aUNINA