Open subjects : English Renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability / / James Kuzner [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Kuzner James
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9003
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Republicanism in literature; Renaissance - England; Politics and literature - England - History
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: vulnerable crests of Renaissance selves -- Legacies of republicanism, histories of the self -- 'Without respect of utility': precarious life and the politics of Edmund Spenser's Legend of Friendship -- Unbuilding the city: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the forms of openness -- 'That Transubstantiall solacisme': Andrew Marvell, linguistic vulnerability and the space of the subject -- Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason and the republicanism of Paradise Lost -- Epilogue: the futures of open subjects.
• Sommario/riassunto: James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser Shakespeare Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically.
• Titolo autorizzato: Open subjects
• ISBN: 0-7486-5158-6; 1-283-22185-3; 9786613221858; 0-7486-4710-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461654103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.