The self in early modern literature : for the common good /

"Responding to the debate stimulated by cultural materialist and new historicist claims that the early modern self was fragmented by forces in Elizabethan England, Sherwood argues that the self was capable of unified subjectivity, demonstrating that the intersection of Protestant vocation and C...

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Main Author: Sherwood, Terry G. 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2007.
Series:Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : obeying time
  • Spenser : persons serving Gloriana
  • Shakespeare's Henriad : calling the heir apparent
  • "Ego videbo" : Donne and the vocational self
  • Jonson : the truth of envy
  • Milton : self-defense and the drama of blame
  • A postscript : the Bacon family.