Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England - Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson

Informationen zum Autor Tom MacFaul is Lecturer in English at Merton College! University of Oxford. He is the author of Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Cambridge! 2007) and many articles on Renaissance poetry and drama. Klappentext This book explores the notion of paternity in early modern poetry, providing close readings of the major works of the time. Zusammenfassung The Renaissance was a high-point of English love poetry. This book considers the various anxieties about sex and fatherhood that informed and shaped the major poems of the time! providing social context for the works of such important and popular writers as Shakespeare! Donne and Spenser. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Presumptive fathers; 2. Uncertain paternity: the indifferent ideology of patriarchy; 3. The childish love of Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville; 4. Spenser's timely fruit: generation in The Faerie Queene; 5. 'We desire increase': Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry; 6. John Donne's rhetorical contraception; 7. 'To propagate their names': Ben Jonson as poetic godfather; Coda: sons.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Macfaul, Tom MacFaul, Tom (University of Oxford) Macfaul, Macfaul Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521191104
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19110-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies