Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature - The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt

Informationen zum Autor Anita Gilman Sherman is Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington, DC. She is the author of Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (2007) and has published articles on Montaigne, Garcilaso de la Vega, Thomas Heywood, W. G. Sebald, and others. Klappentext Skeptical doubt - a foundation of modernity - inspired the burst of artistic creativity illuminating the age of Shakespeare. Literary and philosophical innovation flourished when writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton channeled their skeptical questions and doubts, forever changing the face of English literature. Zusammenfassung Skeptical doubt – a foundation of modernity – inspired the burst of artistic creativity illuminating the age of Shakespeare. Literary and philosophical innovation flourished when writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton channeled their skeptical questions and doubts, forever changing the face of English literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Secularizing Skepticism?; 1. Visionary Interrupted: Spenser's Skeptical Artwork, 2. Fantasies of Private Language: Shakespeare's 'The Phoenix and Turtle' and Donne's 'The Ecstasy'; 3. Conformity/Neutrality in Lord Herbert of Cherbury; 4. The Skeptical Fancies of Margaret Cavendish: Reoccupation; 5. The Enchantments of Andrew Marvell: Skepticism and Taste; Afterword. Experience in Crisis: Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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• Authors: Anita Gilman Sherman, Anita Gilman (American University Sherman, Sherman Anita Gilman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781108842662
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84266-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: poetry and poets