Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022800344X ISBN 13 : 9780228003441

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John S. Garrison is associate professor of English at Grinnell College. Goran Stanivukovic is professor of early modern English literature and cultural studies and chair of the Department of English at Saint Mary s University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022800344X
• ISBN 13: 9780228003441
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Garrison John S., Stanivukovic Goran
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