The Grammar Rules of Affection : : Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson /

The Grammar Rules of Affection : : Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson / / Ross Knecht.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience. Memorable instances of this tendency include the representation of love as a schoolroom exercise conducted under the disciplinary gaze of the mistress, melancholy as a proces...

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Knecht, Ross,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One “Precept and Practice”: Grammar and Pedagogy from the Medieval Period to the Renaissance
  • Chapter Two “Heart-Ravishing Knowledge”: Love and Learning in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella
  • Chapter Three The Ablative Heart: Love as Rule-Guided Action in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • Chapter Four “Shapes of Grief”: The Ineffable and the Grammatical in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
  • Chapter Five “Drunken Custom”: Rules, Embodiment, and Exemplarity in Jonson’s Humours Plays
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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