Open Subjects : : English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability / / James Kuzner.

Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues, protections, and entitlements which foster the self's ability to simulate an invulnerable existence. James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Introduction: Vulnerable Crests of Renaissance Selves
  • 1 Legacies of Republicanism, Histories of the Self
  • 2 ‘Without Respect of Utility’: Precarious Life and the Politics of Edmund Spenser’s Legend of Friendship
  • 3 Unbuilding the City: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the Forms of Openness
  • 4 ‘That Transubstantiall solacisme’: Andrew Marvell, Linguistic Vulnerability and the Space of the Subject
  • 5 Habermas Goes to Hell: Pleasure, Public Reason and the Republicanism of Paradise Lost
  • Epilogue: The Futures of Open Subjects
  • Index