Violent Masculinities [electronic resource] : Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture /
Feather, J.editor.
Thomas, C.editor.
During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities; Part I: "Dispute It Like a Man": Militant Masculinities; 1 Militant Prologues, Memory, and Models of Masculinity in Shakespeare's Henry V and Troilus and Cressida; 2 Marlowe's War Horses: Cyborgs, Soldiers, and Queer Companions; 3 Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama; Part II: "The Faith of Man": Religion and Masculine Aggression; 4 Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare's Coriolanus
5 Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome6 "Warring Spirits ": Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton's Paradise Lost; Part III: "Feel it as a Man": Male Violence and Suffering; 7 King Lear's Violent Grief; 8 Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy; 9 Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth; 10 Melancholy and Spleen: Models of Masculinity in The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Literature—History and criticism.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Gender Studies.
Literary History.