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Author:

Darcy, Robert Farquhar, author.

Title:

Misanthropoetics : social flight and literary form in early modern England / Robert Darcy.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 268 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1500-1700
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
Misanthropy in literature.
English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Manners and customs in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
English poetry--Early modern.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Literature and society.
Manners and customs.
Manners and customs in literature.
Misanthropy in literature.
England--Social life and customs--17th century.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: definition at the limits of form -- 1. Models not to copy: Timon of Athens, knowledge, and the performance of the misanthrope -- 2. Midas's food: paternity, incest, and the Renaissance economy in The Merchant of Venice and Pericles -- 3. Retreats of despair and devotion: choice, faith, and exile in Book 4 of The Faerie Queene -- 4. "Put this in Latin for Me": alienated speech and phenomenological discourse in Ben Johnson's Epicoene -- Epilogue: Pygmalion's image and misanthropoetics in coda.

Summary:

"Misanthropoetics explores the reemergence and appeal of the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston, to exemplify a seemingly unresolvable set of paradoxes of social life"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

ISBN:

1496222628
9781496222626

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1151747877

LCCN:

2020004279

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)