Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More : : Pursuing the Common Weal / / A. D. Cousins.
A prominent scholar of the life and work of Thomas More, A. D. Cousins goes beyond the scope of existing studies to focus primarily and closely on More’s interpretations of the major cultural categories informing his view of the common weal, the common good, and correlatively on the (good) state. Th...
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Cousins, A. D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Pleasure and Gender in the Writings of Thomas More : Pursuing the Common Weal / A. D. Cousins. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022] ©2010 1 online resource (186 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE Pleasure, Gender, and the Pursuit of the Common Weal -- TWO Chance, Gender, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of the Common Weal -- THREE Being a Woman, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Whose Common Weal? -- FOUR Masculinity, Friendship, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Which Common Weal? -- FIVE Role-Play, Masculinity, Pleasure — In and Beyond Pursuit of the Common Weal -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A prominent scholar of the life and work of Thomas More, A. D. Cousins goes beyond the scope of existing studies to focus primarily and closely on More’s interpretations of the major cultural categories informing his view of the common weal, the common good, and correlatively on the (good) state. Thus, this study identifies categories that relate to the individual in civil life, categories that are pervasive and interconnected within More’s nonpolemical writings—most specifically, Cousins focuses on pleasure and gender, considering chance, friendship, and role-play throughout.Exploring pleasure and gender in relation to issues of the common good and of the (good) state, More probes how people make sense of chance (and, alternatively, how they do not), how friendship works interpersonally and beyond national boundaries, and what roles people play (as well as to what roles they can aspire). As Cousins asserts, pursuing the common weal was for More both necessary and desirable, and he himself pursued this on behalf of his country, the republic of letters, and the Church Militant. argues that, from what appears to be his earliest nonpolemical work, Pageant Verses, until what we know to be his last, De Tristitia Christi, More sees the will to pleasure as central to the experience of being human: as a primary human impulse or, at the least, a compelling power within the human consciousness. In tracing how More examines the will to pleasure in our lives, Cousins also examines More’s recurrent concern with gender’s inflecting and expressing this desire. More clearly views gender as potentially restrictive or empowering in many respects, which is discussed in relation to several of More’s texts. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Civil society in literature. Pleasure in literature. Sex role in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780820705002?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780820705002 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780820705002/original |
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