Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature, Paperback / softback Book

Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature Paperback / softback

Part of the Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series

Paperback / softback

  • Information

Description

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature.

Jennifer Vaught bases her analysis on the epic, lyric, and romance as well as on drama, pastoral writings and biography, by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson and Garrick among other writers.

Offering new readings of these works, she traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.

Information

Other Formats

Save 13%

£48.99

£42.42

Information