Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 15901603 - 'A Kingdom for a Man'

This book examines the representation of masculinity in late Elizabethan verse satire. Discussing satirists like Donne and Marston, it suggests that manhood as represented in their writing often existed in tension with patriarchal norms of self-control, violence and husbandry.

List of contents

Introduction: Satire and Masculinity 1. John Donne's Satires and the Precariousness of Masculine Self-Control 2. Violence and the Male in John Marston's Certaine Satyres and The Scourge of Villanie 3. The Failure of Husbandry in Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum 4. Age and Manhood in Everard Guilpin's Skialetheia. Coda: The Ban on Satire and the Representation of Masculinity

About the author

Per Sivefors is Associate Professor of English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Summary

This book examines the representation of masculinity in late Elizabethan verse satire. Discussing satirists like Donne and Marston, it suggests that manhood as represented in their writing often existed in tension with patriarchal norms of self-control, violence and husbandry.

Product details

• Authors: Per Sivefors, Per (Linnaeus University Sivefors
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367463519
• ISBN: 978-0-367-46351-9
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance