The pain of Reformation[electronic r...
Campana, Joseph.

 

  • The pain of Reformation[electronic resource] :Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 821/.3
    書名/作者: The pain of Reformation : Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity // Joseph Campana.
    作者: Campana, Joseph.
    出版者: New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (240 p.).
    標題: Reformation - England.
    標題: Ethics in literature.
    標題: Senses and sensation in literature.
    標題: Masculinity in literature.
    ISBN: 9780823249527 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780823239108 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0823239101 (hbk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    摘要、提要註: "The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical,social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscuring vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellationof masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England. Spenser's era grappled with England's precarious political position in a world tense with religious strife and fundamentally transformed by thedoctrinal and cultural sea changes of the Reformation,which had serious implications for how masculinity, affect, and corporeality would be experienced and represented. Intimations of vulnerability often collided with the tropes of heroic poetry, producing a combination of defensiveness, anxiety, and shame. It has been easy to identifypredictably violent formations of early modern masculinity butmore difficult to see Renaissance literature as an exploration of vulnerability. The underside of representations of violence in Spenser's poetry was a contemplation of the precarious lives of subjects in post-Reformation England. Spenser's adoption of the allegory of Venus disarming Mars,understood in Renaissance Europe as an allegory of peace, indicates that The Faerie Queene is a heroic poem that militates against forms of violence and war that threatened to engulf Europe and devastate an England eager to militarize in response to perceived threats from within andwithout. In pursuing an analysis, disarmament, and redefinition of masculinity in response to a sense of shared vulnerability, Spenser's poemreveals itself to be a vital archive of the way gender, violence, pleasure, and painwere understood"--
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