Violent Masculinities

Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-34474-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feather, J.

Thomas, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities; Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas PART I: 'DISPUTE IT LIKE A MAN': MILITANT MASCULINITIES 1. Militant Prologues, Memory, and Models of Masculinity in Shakespeare's Henry V and Troilus and Cressida; Susan Harlan 2. Marlowe's War Horses: Cyborgs, Soldiers and Queer Companions; Timothy Francisco 3. Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama; Jennifer Forsyth PART II: 'THE FAITH OF MAN': RELIGION AND MASCULINE AGGRESSION 4. Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare's Coriolanus; Lisa S. Starks-Estes 5. Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome; Laurie Nussdorfer 6. 'Warring Spirits': Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton's Paradise Lost; Katharine Cleland PART III: 'FEEL IT AS A MAN': MALE VIOLENCE AND SUFFERING 7. King Lear 's Violent Grief; Andrew D. McCarthy 8. Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy; Catharine Gray 9. Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth; Amanda Bailey 10. Melancholy and Spleen: Models of English Masculinity in Th e Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley; Laurie Ellinghausen Afterword; Coppélia Kahn

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Bailey, University of Maryland, USA

Katharine Cleland, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Laurie Ellinghausen, University of Missouri, USA

Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA

Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State University, USA

Catharine Gray, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA

Susan Harlan, Wake Forest University, USA

Coppelia Kahn, Brown University, USA

Andrew D. McCarthy, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA

Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University, USA

Lisa S. Starks-Estes, South Florida St. Petersburg, USA