The Pain of Reformation : : Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity /

The Pain of Reformation : : Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity / / Joseph Campana.

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The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser’s 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscuring vulnerabil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Campana, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Legend of Holiness
  • 1. Reading Bleeding Trees: Th e Poetics of Other People’s Pain
  • 2. Spenser’s Dark Materials: Representation in the Shadow of Christ
  • Part II The Legend of Temperance
  • 3. On Not Defending Poetry: Spenser, Suffering, and the Energy of Affect
  • 4. Boy Toys and Liquid Joys: Pleasure and Power in the Bower of Bliss
  • Part III The Legend of Chastity
  • 5. Vulnerable Subjects: Amoret’s Agony, Britomart’s Battle for Chastity
  • 6. Damaged Gods: Adonis and the Pain of Allegory
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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