The Self in Early Modern Literature
Subtitle: For the Common Good (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: May 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780820703954
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Common good; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History and criticism; Self in literature
Description: "Responding to the debate stimulated by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was fragmented by forces in Elizabethan England, Sherwood argues that the self was capable of unified subjectivity, demonstrating that the intersection of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism was a stabilizing factor in the early modern construction of self"--Provided by publisher.