"Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like...

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Main Author:	Sivefors, Per (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Series:	Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge
Subjects:	Geschichte 1590-1603 Englisch Verssatire Männlichkeit > Motiv Verse satire, English / History and criticism English poetry / 16th century / History and criticism English poetry / 17th century / History and criticism Masculinity in literature Men in literature English poetry Verse satire, English English poetry / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism 1500-1699 Criticism, interpretation, etc
Summary:	"Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "angry" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this book argues that they engage with early modern ideas of manhood in a conflicted and contradictory way that is frequently at odds with patriarchal norms even when they seem to defend them. The book examines the satires from a series of contexts of masculinity such as husbandry and early modern understandings of age, self-control and violence, and suggests that the images of manhood represented in the satires often exist in tension with early modern standards of manhood. Beyond the specific case studies, while satire has often been assumed to be a "male" genre or mode, this is the first study to engage more in depth with the question of how satire is invested with ideas and practices of masculinity"--
Physical Description:	vii, 161 Seiten
ISBN:	9780367463519