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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 vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellation of masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England. Spenser's era grappled with England's precarious political position in a world tense with religious strife and fundamentally transformed by the doctrinal and cultural sea changes of the Reformation, which had serious implications for how masculinity, affect, and corporeality would be experienced and represented. Intimations of vulnerability often collided with the tropes of heroic poetry, producing a combination of defensiveness, anxiety, and shame. It has been easy to identify predictably violent formations of early modern masculinity but more difficult to see Renaissance literature as an exploration of vulnerability. The underside of representations of violence in Spenser's poetry was a contemplation of the precarious lives of subjects in post-Reformation England. Spenser's adoption of the allegory of Venus disarming Mars, understood in Renaissance Europe as an allegory of peace, indicates that The Faerie Queene is a heroic poem that militates against forms of violence and war that threatened to engulf Europe and devastate an England eager to militarize in response to perceived threats from within and without. In pursuing an analysis, disarmament, and redefinition of masculinity in response to a sense of shared vulnerability, Spenser's poem reveals itself to be a vital archive of the way gender, violence, pleasure, and pain were understood"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 286 p.
Contents
  • 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
  • pt. III
  • LEGEND OF CHASTITY
  • 5.
  • Vulnerable Subjects: Amoret's Agony, Britomart's Battle for Chastity
  • 6.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Damaged Gods: Adonis and the Pain of Allegory
  • pt. I
  • LEGEND OF HOLINESS
  • 1.
  • Reading Bleeding Trees: The Poetics of Other People's Pain
  • 2.
  • Spenser's Dark Materials: Representation in the Shadow of Christ
  • pt. II
Isbn
9780823239108
Instance
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The pain of Reformation : Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity
Title
The pain of Reformation
Title remainder
Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity
Statement of responsibility
Joseph Campana
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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 vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellation of masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England. Spenser's era grappled with England's precarious political position in a world tense with religious strife and fundamentally transformed by the doctrinal and cultural sea changes of the Reformation, which had serious implications for how masculinity, affect, and corporeality would be experienced and represented. Intimations of vulnerability often collided with the tropes of heroic poetry, producing a combination of defensiveness, anxiety, and shame. It has been easy to identify predictably violent formations of early modern masculinity but more difficult to see Renaissance literature as an exploration of vulnerability. The underside of representations of violence in Spenser's poetry was a contemplation of the precarious lives of subjects in post-Reformation England. Spenser's adoption of the allegory of Venus disarming Mars, understood in Renaissance Europe as an allegory of peace, indicates that The Faerie Queene is a heroic poem that militates against forms of violence and war that threatened to engulf Europe and devastate an England eager to militarize in response to perceived threats from within and without. In pursuing an analysis, disarmament, and redefinition of masculinity in response to a sense of shared vulnerability, Spenser's poem reveals itself to be a vital archive of the way gender, violence, pleasure, and pain were understood"--Provided by publisher
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Campana, Joseph
Dewey number
821/.3
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR2358
LC item number
.C35 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Spenser, Edmund
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Senses and sensation in literature
  • Ethics in literature
  • Reformation
Label
The pain of Reformation : Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity, Joseph Campana
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • 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
  • pt. III
  • LEGEND OF CHASTITY
  • 5.
  • Vulnerable Subjects: Amoret's Agony, Britomart's Battle for Chastity
  • 6.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Damaged Gods: Adonis and the Pain of Allegory
  • pt. I
  • LEGEND OF HOLINESS
  • 1.
  • Reading Bleeding Trees: The Poetics of Other People's Pain
  • 2.
  • Spenser's Dark Materials: Representation in the Shadow of Christ
  • pt. II
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 286 p.
Isbn
9780823239108
Lccn
2011037020
Note
Provided through the generosity of The Margaret and William Stobie Library Purchase Fund
Other physical details
ill.
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  • (CaMWU)u2553138-01umb_inst
  • 2584231
  • (Sirsi) i9780823239108
  • (OCoLC)755213236
Label
The pain of Reformation : Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity, Joseph Campana
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
  • 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
  • pt. III
  • LEGEND OF CHASTITY
  • 5.
  • Vulnerable Subjects: Amoret's Agony, Britomart's Battle for Chastity
  • 6.
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Damaged Gods: Adonis and the Pain of Allegory
  • pt. I
  • LEGEND OF HOLINESS
  • 1.
  • Reading Bleeding Trees: The Poetics of Other People's Pain
  • 2.
  • Spenser's Dark Materials: Representation in the Shadow of Christ
  • pt. II
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 286 p.
Isbn
9780823239108
Lccn
2011037020
Note
Provided through the generosity of The Margaret and William Stobie Library Purchase Fund
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (CaMWU)u2553138-01umb_inst
  • 2584231
  • (Sirsi) i9780823239108
  • (OCoLC)755213236

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