Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press Description: xvii,321 p. PB 23x14 cmISBN: 9780226306599Subject(s): English Literature | Shakespeare | Renaissance - EnglandDDC classification: 820.9384 Summary: Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book’s creation and influence. “No one who has read [Greenblatt’s] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail to be moved, as well as enlightened, by an interpretive mode which is as humane and sympathetic as it is analytical. These portraits are poignantly, subtly, and minutely rendered in a beautifully lucid prose alive in every sentence to the ambivalences and complexities of its subjects.”—Harry Berger Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments A Note on Texts Introduction 1. At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation 2. The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 3. Power, Sexuality, and Inwardness in Wyatt’s Poetry 4. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss 5. Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play 6. The Improvisation of Power Epilogue Notes IndexItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book’s creation and influence.
“No one who has read [Greenblatt’s] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail to be moved, as well as enlightened, by an interpretive mode which is as humane and sympathetic as it is analytical. These portraits are poignantly, subtly, and minutely rendered in a beautifully lucid prose alive in every sentence to the ambivalences and complexities of its subjects.”—Harry Berger Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
A Note on Texts
Introduction
1. At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation
2. The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
3. Power, Sexuality, and Inwardness in Wyatt’s Poetry
4. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss
5. Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play
6. The Improvisation of Power
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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