Solitude and Speechlessness : : Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation /

Solitude and Speechlessness : : Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation / / Andrew Mattison.

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Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary...

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Mattison, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Writing in Solitude
  • 1. Lyric Futures: Hidden Ambitions in the Sidney-Pembroke Circle
  • 2. Nameless Orphans: Ambitious Poetry in an Age of Modesty
  • 3. The Peril of Understanding: Forms of Obscurity
  • 4. The Lure of Solitude: Melancholy and Eremitism as Literary Dispositions
  • 5. The Naked Sense of Retirement: Cowley, Marvell, Traherne
  • 6. Literary History in Isolation: Bacon, Hofmannsthal, and Historical Memory
  • Conclusion: Reading in Solitude
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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