The Self in Early Modern Literature: For the Common GoodDuquesne University Press, 2007 - 384 páginas This study is a response to a continuing debate stimulated primarily by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was decentered and fragmented by forces in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The current study enters this debate by rejecting claims of such radical discontinuity characterizing a "contingent" and "provisional" self incapable of unified subjectivity. The counterargument in The Self in Early Modern Literary Studies: For the Common Good is that the intersection of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism, in support of the common good, was a stabilizing factor in early modern construction of self that resisted historical and cultural dislocations. The theoretical issues at stake are examined in an introductory chapter, followed by chapters discussing central aspects of five major early modern writers whose works variously incorporate elements in Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism. These five writers have been chosen both for their importance in the English literary canon and for their respective roles in early modern culture: "Spenser: Persons Serving Gloriana"; "Shakespeare's Henriad: Calling the Heir Apparent"; "'Ego Videbo': Donne and the Vocational Self"; "Jonson and the Truth of Envy"; "Milton: Self-Defense and the Drama of Blame." The study ends with a brief postscript on the Bacon family in whom the combined forces of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism were uniquely expressed. |
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... common good . However much they differ in some assumptions , particularly the limits of human capacity and the reach of divine intervention , both Christian civic humanism and Protestant vocation stress the importance of responsibly ...
... common good . However much they differ in some assumptions , particularly the limits of human capacity and the reach of divine intervention , both Christian civic humanism and Protestant vocation stress the importance of responsibly ...
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... common law court in the system . And the common law itself is much to our point . Shakespeare's chief justice is not old because , like Henry IV , he is exhausted by the cares of a usurped and tarnished office or , like Falstaff ...
... common law court in the system . And the common law itself is much to our point . Shakespeare's chief justice is not old because , like Henry IV , he is exhausted by the cares of a usurped and tarnished office or , like Falstaff ...
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... common law courts alone . They served the broader needs of the king's " pre- rogative , " those rights that enabled government of the realm . Not strictly bound by the dictates of common law , but broadened by supplemental recourse to ...
... common law courts alone . They served the broader needs of the king's " pre- rogative , " those rights that enabled government of the realm . Not strictly bound by the dictates of common law , but broadened by supplemental recourse to ...
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Persons Serving Gloriana | 50 |
A discipline of ensamples | 55 |
Gender in the English Person | 77 |
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The Self in Early Modern Literature: For the Common Good Terry Grey Sherwood Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
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