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03157aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1950F8CA253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 210830t20222022ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021041556 020 $a 0226816508 020 $a 9780226816500 020 $a 0226816494 020 $a 9780226816494 035 $a (OCoLC)1268256728 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TFW $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IVU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR408.S845 $b D36 2022 082 00 $a 820.9/3548 $2 23/eng/20211101 100 1 $a Daniel, Drew, $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a Joy of the worm : $b suicide and pleasure in early modern English literature / $c Drew Daniel. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 279 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Thinking literature 520 $a "Voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "the joy of the worm," after Cleopatra's embrace of the deadly asp in Shakespeare's play-a pattern where voluntary death is imagined as an occasion for humor, mirth, ecstatic pleasure, even joy and celebration. Daniel draws both a historical and a conceptual distinction between "self-killing" and "suicide." Standard intellectual histories of suicide in the early modern period have understandably emphasized attitudes of abhorrence, scorn, and severity toward voluntary death. Daniel reads an archive of early modern literary scenes and passages, dating from 1534 to 1713, that complicates this picture. In their own distinct responses to the surrounding attitude of censure, writers including Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Addison imagine death not as sin or sickness, but instead as heroic gift, sexual release, elemental return, amorous fusion, or political self-rescue. The "joy of the worm" emerges here as an aesthetic mode that shades into schadenfreude, sadistic cruelty, and deliberate "trolling," but can also underwrite powerful feelings of belonging, devotion, and love"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Smiling at daggers in Cato, a Tragedy -- $t Failed seriousness in the old Arcadia and Gallathea -- $t Slapstick and synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra -- $t Trolling decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens -- $t The Open window in Biathanatos -- $t Inventing suicide in Religio Medici -- $t A cartoon about suicide prevention in Paradise Lost -- $t Smiling at daggers in Cato, a Tragedy -- $g Epilogue. 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Suicide in literature. 650 7 $a English literature $x Early modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710960 650 7 $a Suicide in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01137615 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Thinking literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022022.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1950F8CA253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search