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This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554-1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561-1595). For the first time, a collection of original essays unites them with the aim to explore their literary production. The essays collected here define these authors' efforts to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects amid a shifting politico-religious landscape. They highlight the authors' criticism of the court and underscore similarities and differences in thought, themes, and style. Altogether, the essays in this volume demonstrate the developments in cosmology, theology, literary conventions, political ideas, and religious dogmas, and trace their influence in the oeuvre of Greville and Southwell.
List of contents
Introduction. Overview Calvinist Statesman, Jesuit Martyr: The Worlds of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell Part I: Fulke Greville (1554-1628) 1. "Freedom Among the Dead": Greville’s Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney 2. Reading Might Make Us Know: Vulcan’s Brothers and Myra’s Posies in Greville’s Cælica 3. "The Mind of Man is this worlds true dimension": Space, Knowledge, and the Divine in Fulke Greville’s A Treatie of Humane Learning and A Treatise of Religion 4. Duality and Aporia in Greville’s Political Writings 5. Monarchy and Patriarchy in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha 6. "A voyce cries out; Reuenge and Liberty": Republicanism and Gender in Fulke Greville’s Alaham Part II: Robert Southwell (1561-1595) 7. "This pompe is prizèd there": Southwell’s Challenge to Courtly Identities in "New Prince, New Pompe" 8. Complaint as Reconciliation in the Literary Mission of Robert Southwell 9. Robert Southwell’s Articulation of Self-Fashioning 10. Southwell’s Influence: Imitations, Appropriations, Reactions. Conclusion
About the author
Vassiliki Markidou is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Afroditi-Maria Panaghis is Emerita Professor of English at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Summary
This book investigates the literary production of the Calvinist Fulke Greville and the Jesuit Robert Southwell —their effort to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects in a shifting politico-religious landscape, and the similarities/dissimilarities in their vision.
