Open subjects
Subtitle: English renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability
By: James Kuzner
Series: Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780748642533
Subjects: Renaissance; English literature; Politics and literature; Republicanism in literature; History and criticism; History
Description: James Kuzner's study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton presents a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: vulnerable crests of Renaissance selves; title: Legacies of republicanism, histories of the shelf; title: 'Without respect of utility': precarious life and the politics of Edmund Spenser's Legend of Friendship; title: Unbuilding the city: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the form of openness; title: 'That Transubstantiall solacisme': Andrew Marvell, linguistic vulnerability and the space of the subject; title: Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason and the republicanism of Paradise Lost.