Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, From Queen - Elizabeth to King Lear

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Martin is associate professor of English at Boston University and author of Policy in Love: Lyric and Public in Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare. Klappentext Christopher Martin examines how, contrary to received impressions, writers and thinkers of the era - working in the shadow of the kinetic, long-lived queen herself - contested such prejudicial and dismissive social attitudes. In late Tudor England, Martin argues, competing definitions of and regard for old age established a deeply conflicted frontier between external, socially "constituted” beliefs and a developing sense of an individual's "constitution” or physical makeup, a usage that entered the language in the mid-1500s.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Martin
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2012
• EAN: 9781558499737
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-973-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early; Massachusetts Studies in Early
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies